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"Welcome to Hybrid Pedagogy's MOOC MOOC! MOOC MOOC is made possible by partnerships with the English and Digital Humanities Program at Marylhurst University and the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Tech. Thanks also to Instructure for their support."

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to enable free university-level education on an enormous scale. A concern often raised about MOOCs is that although thousands enrol for courses, a very small proportion actually complete the course. The release of information about enrollment and completion rates from MOOCs appears to be ad hoc at the moment - that is, official statistics are not published for every course. This data visualisation draws together information about enrollment numbers and completion rates from across online news stories and blogs.

All about MOOCs via Stephen Downes

MOOCs Cheatsheet Infographic | e-Learning Infographics cMOOCS xMOOCS etc

Vandy huh? Wasn't DB at the MOOC table with holden ;)

Dave Cormier outlines success in a MOOC but this applies to just about any learning opportunity: Orient, Declare, Network, Cluster,Focus

After a whirlwind nine months that has witnessed a rapid rebirth of online education at elite U.S. universities in the form of massively open online courses, or MOOCs, Harvard University has thrown its hat into the ring - along with the largest investment yet in technology aimed at bringing interactive online education to hundreds of thousands of students at a time for free.

Great article by Audrey Watters!

"The paper argues that although social networking media increase the potential range and scope for emergent learning exponentially, considerable effort is required to ensure an effective balance between openness and constraint.  It is possible to manage the relationship between prescriptive and emergent learning, both of which need to be part of an integrated learning ecology."

The paint is barely dry, yet edX, the nonprofit start-up from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 370,000 students this fall in its first official courses.

Ted Mann might be interested in this. I sent it to him and Mike G

"True innovation in Higher Ed will emerge from faculty-driven, open-source projects, not start-up commercialisation"

Coursera is a platform for instruction, discussion and grading at Internet scale. It extends the influence of universities around the world, and it provides them data-driven insights into how to adapt higher education to the global promise of the Internet.