This subject guide serves as a point of departure in finding information on MOOCs as well as providing further avenues for self-exploration. It is a work in progress as the contents will change as new resources are added or removed. You are encouraged to make suggestions for content to be added or removed.

Harvard open courses at Harvard Extension School Videos for the following free Harvard courses are made available by the Harvard Extension School's Open Learning Initiative. Featuring Harvard faculty, the noncredit courses are open to the public. You do not need to register to view the lecture videos.

This site contains a list of best online courses from the the world's best universities

List of MOOC courses from Coursera

This site includes a list of of MOOC resources

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.

This is an aggregator (directory) of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from different providers

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

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.

This Metaliteracy MOOC explores the metaliteracy model originally developed by Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson in Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy. This open learning experience turns theory into practice by exploring emerging technologies to collectively create and distribute information in an open participatory environment

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"