He does recommend that colleges and universities create committees focusing on responding to such pressures for change systemically, to stay ahead of the curve. George Siemens, who coined the term "MOOC" and helped create the first massive open online course, has taken issue with the recent talk by higher education disruptors who claim higher education is "broken and stagnant", and has defended the innovation recently shown by traditional colleges and universities. The MOOC phenomenon was born in 2009 when Stanford University professor Jonathan Ng, a former Google employee, launched Coursera, an online platform that allows anyone to teach classes online.
George Siemens, who coined the term "MOOC" and helped create the first massive open online course, has taken issue with the recent talk by higher education disruptors who claim higher education is "broken and stagnant", and has defended the innovation recently shown by traditional colleges and universities. The MOOC phenomenon was born in 2009 when Stanford University professor Jonathan Ng, a former Google employee, launched Coursera, an online platform that allows anyone to teach classes online.