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SRL-MOOC study - categories assigned to learners in Change11 that were emerging from their data analysis included 'lurkers'. More discussion on this in the context of xMOOCs or cMOOCs is given here.

A visual analysis of access, connectivity and production of/control of information around the world.

"All of these MOOC platforms appear to justify their status by promoting curricula that are equivalent to campus-based courses, with a strong focus on content delivery and an emphasis on the rigor and formality of their assessment methods.  However, some of the most interesting and innovative practices in online education have emerged by challenging these very ideas; loosening institutional control of learning outcomes and assessment criteria, shifting from a focus on content delivery to a foregrounding of process, community and learning networks, and working with more exploratory assessment methods - digital and multimodal assignments, peer assessment and group assignments, for example."

OER: The value of reuse in higher ed  D.White/M.Manton

Patrick McAndrew talks about MOOCs lack of openness.

I like the simplicity of this image and the questions it raises.

A number of search engines exist to search Open Educational Resources and are included on this page

Martin Weller, Dave Cormier and George Siemens discuss MOOCs

Rita Kop paper in IRRODL

A look at some of the myths surrounding various types of MOOC

Potentially useful? What do you think of these standards for Web Literacy?