How crowdsourcing is impacting scientific research, and how blogging about scientific findings is changing how information about new discoveries gets supported/debunked. Interesting in the social media crowdsourcing aspect of how information is not in the hands of just experts anymore.

MIT and Harvard have teamed up to offer MOOCs, and this month Stanford, Princeton, U of PA, U of MI have created a new commercial company, Coursera, with $16 million in venture capital.

This goes with the recent buzz on our Moocs. Here's the NYTimes article on the formation of heavy-hitter Moocs. It appears the Harvard MIT collaborative is also a research project on how people learn online, which could be interesting.