Since 2011, when Stanford University launched its first “massive open online courses”, these free, internet-enabled programmes have cropped up everywhere, engaging millions of users. The largest Mooc providers ‑– Coursera, Udemy, Udacity, and EdX – offer free tuition, supplied by universities, often to hundreds of thousands of students at a time. But just a year after Moocs really started taking off, offering the promise of real disruption to the centuries-old higher-education business, user growth has started to slow.
自2011年斯坦福大学(Stanford University)首次推出“大规模开放在线课程”(Mooc)以来，这种依托互联网的课程已遍地开花，吸引了数百万用户。Mooc的最大供应商Coursera、Udemy、Udacity和EdX均免费提供来自高校的课程。这些在线课程经常能吸引几十万名学生一起学习。但在Mocc真正开始兴起仅一年后，用户增速便开始放慢。这种课程原本有望真正瓦解已有数百年历史的高等教育行业。
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