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Excellent article from Audrey Watters on the rewriting of Mooc history and why it is important that such things are not twisted to develop a new narrative that suits those doing the rewriting.

"Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and the desire is to retain these functions where appropriate, whilst the form they take may change. Much of the reaction to technological change comes from those with a vested interest in either wholesale change or maintaining the status quo. Taking the resilience metaphor from ecology, the authors propose a framework for analysing an institution's ability to adapt to digital challenges. This framework is examined at two institutions (the UK Open University and Canada's Athabasca University) using two current digital challenges, namely Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Access publishing."

First hand account of the FOE Coursera mooc collapse

Mooc hell on FOE

More on the FOE crash

Anything tagged edcmchat from the edc mooc tweet chats should be in here.

Seb Schmoller with short piece on moocs and why they are worth attention.

Moodle MOOC site - four week free courses on how to use Moodle, 3-4 hours per week

Doesn't quite get it is my immediate response. Suifa John Mak has to bring in the first mention of George & Stephen in the comments!

List of Mooc's

Marcus Wilson on the rise of the new moocs.

Article wondering about the lightness of offerings in the Mooc space. 1 comment notes the lightness of the content too.

Stanford has unveiled a free online open source platform for running MOOCs called Class2Go.

"Far more important to me than all the venture-capitalized consortia of elite university MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) and the hundreds of thousands of students flocking to them is a course taught by an adjunct professor at University of Mary Washington."

First MOOCs now SMOC = synchronous massive open online course