A Brief History

The roots of MOOCs date back to 1971 when Britain's Open University started teaching via radio and television. Since 1989, the University of Phoenix in the US has been teaching online. Others got on the bandwagon too. In 2012, Stanford University launched two MOOC platforms—Udacity and Coursera. Harvard and MIT then launched edX. The trend goes big when Futurelearn, another MOOC platform, has been set up by British universities.