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The _Liberal Education_ article is fascinating. Note that the baseline is somewhat contested. Vocational/professional learning is the big driver.

Blip or trend?

Another international take on MOOCs. Do MOOCs pose more of a threat to international branch campuses, since they focus on career-oriented training?

A provocative comparison. Perhaps what will push MOOCs over the top will be employers accepting them.

MOOC conversation with Dave Cormier, George Siemens, Martin Weller

Chronicle article (paywalled) on how more writing will help students learn more--an interesting problem when combined with the prevalence of MOOCS, where writing assignments are only looked over by peers.

Good resource - Prof Altbach has been in the HE discussion game for a long time (week 1 readings included a paper he did for a UNESCO conf)

Video recording of Sebastian Thrun's (Google, Udacity) keynote at this week's 18th Annual Sloan Consortium Conference on Online Learning

Thanks for this resource, i now have a much better idea of the difference between cMOOC and xMOOC's. It is also so up-to-date and gives me the opportunity to learn from others when thinking about my own development of a MOOC Loads of ideas !!