= Impact of MOOCs =
<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 1;">"In South America, China, countries in Africa, there is a huge appetite for learning, and some of the world's best courses are being offered online. If people are genuinely fascinated by learning, then why not? The real challenge is to allow those countries not just consume and study Moocs, but also to create them." - Mike Sharples, chair of Educational Technology. He published a report in 2012 predicting the rise of MOOCs.<sup>1</sup></span>
<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 1;">“The evolving form knits together education, entertainment (think gaming) and social networking. Unlike its antecedent, open courseware — usually written materials or videotapes of lectures that make you feel as if you’re spying on a class from the back of the room — the MOOC is a full course made with you in mind.”– Published in The Year of the MOOC in 2012<sup>2</sup></span>
<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 1;">“That’s done a lot for affordability and accessibility for not only lower-income families but even middle-income families now,” </span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: ProximaNovaRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 1;">- Hennessy who worked at Stanford for nearly 40 years and founder of MIPS Computer Systems<sup>3</sup></span>
= MOOC Sites<br/> =