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Stephen Downes

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The answer to the question is "no", at least in my view, but for reasons having little to do with the four outstanding issues highlighted in this article. We've seen these issues show up in any number of articles: completion rates, accreditation, accessibility, and sustainability. These, though, are the issues faced by traditional online courses pretending to be MOOCs. In MOOCs as they were originally defined, completion rates are a non-issue, accreditation is in the eyes of the participants, access is to any and all who are interested, and sustainability is based in the community (and the fact that we don't really have budgets to offer these things).

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