The rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) has taken advantage of the increasing ease with which digital technologies can be used to broadcast and interact, creating broad communities of educators and learners.
Long-standing distance learning course providers such as Open University have benefitted from (and adjusted to) the widening range of technological tools, communication methods and digital educational resources. The design of MOOCs responds to the changing learning patterns that Schuurman presents in Tweet Me Your Talk: Geographical Learning and Knowledge Production 2.0 (in the The Professional Geographer, 2013) responding to our ‘lifestyle of interrupted, fragmented learning’.
