Interesting - people learn in MOOCS and at least as well as face to face classes. The paper is published in IRRODL so will be worth looking at in detail.
An attempt to integrate xMooc and cMooc ideas in an upcoming Mooc. The description eventually sounds horrendously complicated - but then so can describing making a cup of tea so let's see what it turns out like.
Very well thought out exposition on how the 'openness' concept has been confused and damaged by the MOOC phenomena. Preview of a chapter to be published in Bonk's book MOOC and Open Education around the world.
"It was just 18 months ago that we were living in the "Year of the MOOC." Massive open online courses-MOOC for short-were supposed to revolutionize the way people learned and deliver high-quality education to the masses. But the idea faced a tough 2013. The co-founder of Udacity, an early pioneer in free online education, admitted that his company initially had a "lousy product," while studies showed that hardly any students were actually completing the courses offered by such services at all."