How did MOOCs become online learning platforms?

Richard Terry investigates in this online article in Discovering Society.

Richard Terry discusses the sociotechnical discourse that prefigured the development of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as online learning platforms. The article is based on a paper Richard delivered at the conference on Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University, organised by the Culture, Politics and Global Justice research cluster at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge in December 2018. The article can be accessed here: https://discoversociety.org/2019/05/01/how-moocs-became-platforms/