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Thrun tries moocs for 18 months then decides Udacity should be doing small vocational courses instead.

Schuman's piece deriding the Mooc movement based on Thrun's 'pivot'. It's crap journalism but it's the article getting all the comments. As an academic maybe she should read Hattie before bigging up her own contribution to learning.

Useful active list of MOOC research

Downes & Siemens on xMoocs

Site for the Online Teaching MOOC.

David Wiley explains his critical position on MOOCs. I think I'm in agreement.

Another insightful post from Jim Groom on moocs and personal agency in a digital world.

Don't just claim massive enrolments, justify the completions. A case study in very poor retention in a Coursera course. The comments suggest that Open is key and that there is no evidence that Massive adds any qualitative value in MOOCS.

Affirmation of good learning through a Coursera MOOC

Wikipedia entry about Moocs.

Rheingold on organising a cMooc and the role of Connectivism.

Antioch University Los Angeles becomes one of the first universities to offer credit for two undergraduate courses from Coursera. 

Downes contests this - yet to read

Coursera prevents other entities using courses as part of some other course elsewhere e.g. at UoW.

Universities UK report on Moocs

MOOCs at Edinburgh - the first year report.

Moocs as capitalist ventures which will parasitically destroy academia and also produce poor returns for learners. This is an economic landgrab of huge proportions.

a thought-provoking article that puts forward the thesis that MOOCs and Coursera are the wrong direction for higher education - that personalisation and customisation of learning are the direction we should be working to develop.

"The infographic below, while simply designed to show students who are taking a MOOC for university level Spanish what the components of their class will be, does an excellent job showing a) just how online language learning can be (even if you're sitting at home alone) and b) how well language learning lends itself to online learning"