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This, to me, signifies the success of a cMOOC: "Our study also shows that top ten nodes with the highest in-degree were primarily hashtags. This suggests that people were connecting around thematic markers of common interest, referring to them and making them popular. In fact, thematic analysis of the same dataset confirms that the learners were more focused on the topics of interest, rather than those suggested by course facilitators, and that those topics emerged quickly in the course, and were maintained by the groups of people that adopted them." Fascinating paper; if you're interested in cMOOCs don't miss it.

"Abstract That's the nickname of Virginia Commonwealth University's first cMOOC, a fully online course that ran for the first time in the summer of 2014. It's also the phrase computer visionary Doug Engelbart coined to describe collaborative knowledge work in cyberspace. What does this enigmatic phrase suggest for higher education and the future of online learning? What emerging technologies will help to bring Engelbart's vision to fruition? What "trailing edge technologies" have not yet been used to their fullest in addressing this goal? And what organizational and cultural changes are necessary to return higher education to the core values that gave birth to the Internet in the first place?"