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"Published on Open Education Europa, a paper presents an example of a Social Learning Analytics Tool to visualize real-time discussion activities in a MOOC environment. Practitioners and researchers can read how to implement and use such a SLA tool as a plugin in practice. We will learn how a collaboration between a teacher (Susan Voogd), a SLA developer (Chris Teplovs) and two researchers from the OUNL (Bieke Schreurs and Maarten de Laat) resulted in a SLA Tool to visualize real-time discussion activities."

"By creating an event like a MOOC we are potentially radically redefining what it means to be an educator. We are very much at the beginning stages of our learning how to create the space required for community to develop and grow in an open course. These field notes speak to the my own journey in the design of 'Rhizomatic Learning - the community is the curriculum'. They are, in effect, a journey towards planned obsolescence."

How can universities and colleges take advantage of emerging online learning technologies to deliver an affordable, high-quality education to an increasingly diverse student body? This research report, which grew out of an 18-month study with the University System of Maryland, allowed us to explore how MOOCs and other online learning technologies can be incorporated into a wide range of college courses. This study included controlled side-by-side tests examining how students fared in hybrid classes, creating new evidence of the effects of these formats on learning outcomes. MOOCS "Testing MOOCS" "online learning"

This include various resources from around the internet discussing what the pieces of the puzzle are that make up a MOOC

If you've ever considered building your own open online class, the first step is determining which MOOC platform will best suit your needs. Luckily, several free MOOC platforms exist. The following is a review of their strengths and weaknesses and of the type of user each might be most appropriate for.

I've been taking a Coursera MOOC and have been thinking a lot about how libraries can utilize elements from some of these new educational models. Daphne Koller, one of the founders of Coursera, discussed in recent TED Talk a key difference between face to face learning and online education models.