This report tracks the development of 'massive open online courses' (MOOCs) from a small selection of specialist courses to major online platforms, offering hundreds of courses with millions of users. UUK's submission to the 2013 Spending Round sets out why and how universities are critical to maintaining the UK’s economic competitiveness, and identifies the actions government must take for UK higher education to continue to drive growth. This year’s Patterns report, which continues the series on changing trends in higher education and brings us up to 2011, records a period of outstanding success and growth for UK universities.
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