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Giving Form Liberal Education Fall 2013 cover image    Fall
2013, Vol. 99, No. 4  The MOOC Moment and the End of Reform  By
Aaron Bady  The MOOC phenomenon has happened very quickly, to
put it mildly. Last November, the New York Times declared 2012
to be “the Year of the MOOC” (Pappano 2012), and while it feels
(at least to me) like we’ve been talking about MOOCs for years
now, the speed by which the MOOC has become the future of higher
education is worth thinking carefully about, both because it’s
an important way to frame what is happening and because that
speed warps the narrative we are able to tell about what is
happening. Coursera, Uda