Scenarios about 'MOOCs'
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free or low-cost educational platforms that emerged in the early 2010s, offering university-level instruction to unlimited participants via the internet. These digital learning environments represented a significant shift in educational accessibility, challenging traditional institutional models by democratizing knowledge acquisition across geographical and socioeconomic boundaries. In alternate history scenarios, different MOOC development trajectories could profoundly impact global educational equity, technological literacy, and the evolution of formal credentialing systems.
What If Online Learning Never Developed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where digital education platforms never emerged, dramatically altering how knowledge is shared in the internet age and transforming the landscape of global education access.