User:Mackiwg/Sandbox/Should Otago Polytechnic be spooked by MOOCs?

What are open online courses?

 * Early Open Online Courses
 * The "first" MOOC Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, George Siemens and Stephen Downes, 2008
 * Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Stanford, October 2011. (Sebastian Thrun & Peter Norvig)

MOOC hybrids

 * cMOOCs
 * xMOOCs (Commercial)
 * Coursera (see also terms of reference)
 * Udacity
 * Futurelearn
 * edX (Research) established by MIT and Harvard
 * mOOCs OER university consortium

Pedagogy and technology

 * Open Content Licensing for Educators
 * Scenario Planning for Educators (University of Canterbury and OER Foundation)