The Web has spawned a plethora of blogs about online learning and teaching, and I monitor only a few of them. (To read them all, or even just the best, would leave me overwhelmed, thin, and sleep-deprived.) Among those I do watch is Stephen Downes' OLDaily. At the moment, he is posting information about MOOCs ... his own opinions, and where to find just about everyone else's.
Now that the MOOC has hit the big time, the flaws are showing, the successes are flowing, and variations to the original model are emerging. We need to know about those, because we can learn from them - not just in case we want to offer a CASS MOOC, but because they help us to understand how to teach in more traditional modes more effectively. By "traditional", I mean not only face-to-face modes of teaching, but also distance modes, online modes, and intensive modes.
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