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KF: An interesting reflection on one learner's experiences across a range of open learning courses. The article highlights the motivations, the learning models, the support and the challenges that she experienced as a student in MOOC and open access education. Via Kim Flintoff 
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Alt-Ed is devoted to documenting significant initiatives relating to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), digital badges, and similar alternative educational initiatives. Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge, Peter Mellow
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"Back when the course started in September, it seemed like a reasonable description. #change11 was designed and run by Massive Open Online Course pioneers George Siemens, Stephen Downes, and Dave Cormier, and had 36 separate facilitators lined up to cover everything from soup to nuts in the grand scheme of instructional technologies and 21st century learning.
Apparently, however, George and Dave should have kept the crystal ball from their Edfutures MOOC a few years back.
Because in thinking about the Mother of All MOOCs, it seems none of us in #change11 were thinking big enough."
----------------- There's an interesting rejoinder from Joshua Kim at http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/david-brooks-confuses-moocs-online-learning Via Kim Flintoff
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In case the quotes didn’t clue you in, this post doesn’t argue against massive open online courses (MOOCs) such as the ones offered by Udacity, Coursera, and edX. I think they are ve... Via Peter Mellow
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Open to individual educators from across the UK HE, FE, and community and skills sectors, the MOOC will aim: to increase the uptake of OERs through embedding the use of curriculum design tools, practices and approaches in individual practice and design team culture; to empower practitioners to become change agents in their local contexts; and to produce a collection of CC-licensed OER resources for wider use after the MOOC ends. Weekly activities will feature a range of presenters with a focus on foregrounding successful JISC and HEA funded UK projects and giving UK practitioners access to (and opportunity to learn from) some of the best of European initiatives. Via Kim Flintoff
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In the above post, Stephen Downes sets out very clearly his views on what MOOCs are and what they do, mainly in response to an earlier post by Clark Quinn, in which Clark argued that there should be some way to integrate both cognitive and social learning theory within the design of MOOCs. Via Mark Smithers, Learning Futures
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