For those who need their MOOC fix I offer up these.

Who Owns a MOOC

“Faculty union officials in California worry professors who agree to teach free online classes could undermine faculty intellectual property rights and collective bargaining agreements.”

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/19/u-california-faculty-union-says-moocs-undermine-professors-intellectual-property

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Learners Are People, Not Isolated Test-Taking Brains: Why MOOCs Both Work and Fail

“MOOCs are good at certain things and terrible at others, and we need to understand the difference if we wish to educate human beings, not just workers with credentials.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-d-blum/learners-are-people-not-i_b_2891097.html

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Emerging Student Patterns in MOOCs: A Graphical View

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http://mfeldstein.com/emerging_student_patterns_in_moocs_graphical_view/

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The Oddity of MOOCs as OER and the Issue of Integration Cost

“What to make of this? There’s a lot of cynical (and true) things I could say. Certainly the vast incestuous relationship of Silicon Valley startups and tech journalism has something to do with it — with VC-funded PR dollars to spend, getting MOOCs onto the front page of every newspaper and onto every TV news program is the full time job of an army of well-funded marketers in a way that OER/OCW never was. And the fact it comes from Silicon Valley facilitates the sort of co-dependent backscratching journalism that that area excels in.

The message that MOOCs would destroy education (not save it) has also been helpful. The OER/OCW message was rather hippie-ish in nature, and could never tap into the interest of the Lou Dobbs/David Brooks set.  It felt too 1967. The MOOC as destroyer meme, on the other hand, has quickly propagated through conservative circles, and with it the hope that colleges (perceived as the last power base of liberalism) will soon be a thing of the past.”

http://hapgood.us/2013/02/22/the-oddity-of-moocs-as-oer-and-the-issue-of-integration-cost/

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