The purpose of this document is two-fold:
- to offer an online history of the development of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
- to use that history to describe major elements of a MOOC
The bigger issue is the breakdown in the process that led to this problem. If we don't fix this, then we will experience another breakdown in the future. It's virtually guaranteed. As the philosopher George Santayana said, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."