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Welcome to the Science Podcast for January 2, 2015.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, Justin Reich talks about the future of massive open online courses,

also known as MOOCs.

David Grimm is out this week, but we'll be back next week with more online news stories.

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Despite their relative newness, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of online learners have hopped on the free open courseware bandwagon. I spoke with Justin Reich about the brief history of these online offerings and their effect on the way college classes are being taught online and offline.

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