http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPOtr-MoHwc

A video discussing the good and the bad of MOOC's.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/07/27/what-moocs-will-really-kill-is-the-research-university/

Interesting piece in Forbes on how MOOC's will affect and do affect universities.

http://www.bostonreview.net/us/are-moocs-good-students

A question I didn't think needed to be asked but which brings up many interesting answers and discussion avenues. Certainly for those of us taking them, it is interesting to see this all set forth.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/03/14/Good-Bad-and-Ugly-MOOCs

Article that goes over why MOOCs can be a mixed bag. Interesting, considering how most of us who are taking the MOOC are probably positively inclined toward them.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/francesbooth/2014/10/27/information-overload-are-you-one-of-the-pancake-people/

An article from Forbes that asks whether you are spreading yourself too thin when connecting on the net.

http://www.infogineering.net/understanding-information-overload.htm

Good, general site describing the issue of information overload as it pertains to open knowlege.

An article that contains a link to a video with a nearly 1 and 1/2 hour debate on the purpose of education and the future of online learning. One of the participants is Sebastian Thrun, who is the CEO of Udacity, a service that offers free courses.

This piece is related to the idea of open knowledge in that it deals with one professor's year-long experiment with synchronous teaching over a Skype connection. While the professor felt that it worked better and more seamlessly than anyone could have imagined, he remains unsure as to whether telepedagogy has a place in our traditional academic settings. While a bit different in scope, idea and execution than a mooc, it is another example of new ways in which traditional learning is giving way to 21st technology. Video conferencing is now an every day part of most businesses, and here is an entire semester's class being "phoned in" via Skype. As the article points out, its usefulness in a traditional setting is up in the air. Yet there would seem to be an obvious utility in bringing this give and take classroom setting to remote locations that might have internet access but not easy access to schools or specific professors. Yet another way to make knowledge or the access to knowledge more open.