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Students who complete an Open Educational Resources University course will be able to pay a fee to have their work assessed for academic credit, which would then be recognised by all the universities participating in the OERu. In theory, the students could approach any of the partner institutions with evidence of the credits they have amassed and apply for degrees.

MOOCs unanswered questions: How can they offer secure and reliable assessment over the internet? Will employers accept their qualifications? How do you assess courses in the humanities which are not suited to multiple-choice testing marked by computer?

The possibility for MOOC's to gain some legitimacy by offering credit through the administration of a fee-based exam.

There is an "uncollege" movement that encourages people to complete college degrees by pursuing self-study, then taking CLEP exams to gain college credits. The problem has always been that many higher-priced/name-brand colleges (e.g. Harvard) don't accept CLEP credits, requiring students to pay for credits the old-fashioned way. I wonder whether established schools will accept credits from MOOC courses.

This is a natural progression for MOOC's. But I have to wonder, if the wave of the future is a MOOC higher education, then how will our young adults develop, socially? developmentally? psychologically? Will we create a society of socially incompetent adults who are not able to work intereactively, or in groups with co-workers, or lacking negotiation skills, or many of the 21st c. skills needed in many workplaces.

MOOCs ongoing push to college credit

Badgestack and Longwood U combine forces to offer students a head start on what they need to know to succeed in today's work force.

Programs and organizations like "UnCollege" and the "Thiel Fellowship" provide low-cost, low accreditation practical alternatives to college. Part of the changing landscape of higher education, perhaps one that reinforces the MOOC revolution. New York Times, "Saying No to College".

Wow, pretty interesting that Coursera is getting into this game. I always thought that was a strong suit of Udacity and one possible way for them to get sustainable revenue.

For academe's future, think mash-ups not MOOC's

Terrific article. I love the way they articulate some of the criticisms of MOOCs we've talked about: "Making courseware "massive" may dangle the eventual possibility of trillion-dollar profits (even if they have yet to materialize). But it does not "fix" what is broken in our system of education. It massively scales what's broken."

A description of the current status of MOOC's for a broad audience. As well as the predictions on how this will change the state of education etc...

Discussion on whether higher ed institutions can save cost by allowing students tograduate in three yrs by integrating the use of mooc. (By prof from yokyo univ. who is attending this)

This article links to the contract between Coursera and the University of Michigan, mentioning the monetization possibilities, among others. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/400864-coursera-fully-executed-agreement.html#document/p40

Mooc class on "learning creative learning" by mit media lab. Mimi talks briefly about motivation at ariund 36min,

A good description of Udacity & Coursera. Says MOOCs work well for students who are self-motivated and already fairly well educated. Yet, worldwide, the poorest students still don't have the background (or the Internet bandwidth) to participate in a major way. It suggests that very selective colleges will continue to thrive, but those in the middle will need to work harder to justify their costs.

I just found a current MOOC, highly relevant to the conversation in class today. --free and accepting new participants now. "Weekly Topics: Change pressures: What is influencing higher education? (Oct 8-14) Net pedagogies: New models of teaching and learning (Oct 15-21) Entrepreneurship and commercial activity in education (Oct 22-28) Big data and Analytics (Oct 29-Nov 4) Leadership in Education (Nov 4-11) Distributed Research: new models of inquiry (Nov 12- 18)"

Testing centers and MOOCs and universities are partnering in an effort to offer credit for students who complete online courses.