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Needs keeping an eye on, as much as anything else in view of Coursebuilder/EdX collaboration points made by Peter Norvig during telco in April.

This caught my eye. I think it is probably run in Google CourseBuilder.

I'm not a fan of lists of most important things, but I like the work of Will Thalheimer and have kept vaguely in contact with him over the years. I think this list is worth having in mind when designing (online) courses

Of possible interest

Curiously revisionist history of MOOCs that centres on a Maths MOOC aimed at preparing students for US college courses that requite some maths proficiency

Article in Nature by Sarah Kellogg with a lightweight overview of building a Coursera MOOC

These are worth reading: 1. "Udacity: Creating A More Engaging MOOC" by David Carr in the 30/7/2013 Information Week. Also http://tinyurl.com/k2shmgv by David Evans, the teacher of the Udacity Introduction to Computer Science, who is now back full time at the University of Virginia - http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/

[48 p PDF], and worth looking at thoroughtly. Excerpt: "The statistical model found that measures of student effort trump all other variables tested for their relationships to student success, including demographic descriptions of the students, course subject matter and student use of support services. The clearest predictor of passing a course is the number of problem sets a student submitted. The relationship between completion of problem sets and success is not linear; rather the positive effect increases dramatically after a certain baseline of effort has been made. Video Time, another measure of effort, was also found to have a strong positive relationship with passing, particularly for Stat 95 students."