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The Mystery of the Missing MOOC
A social experiment gone wrong? A protest against Facebook? Performance art? Twitter sleuths attempt to figure out why a Coursera MOOC derailed after one week. UPDATE: The professor speaks.
From MOOC to Shining MOOC
University of Pennsylvania instructors and State Department diplomats hope massive online courses will attract more international students to American colleges and universities.
Data, Data Everywhere
Participants in the Gates-funded MOOC Research Initiative discuss their results -- and the pains of working with MOOC data.
Rhetoric Check
A national faculty coalition continues its anti-MOOC offensive, but some critics say the concerns are overblown.
Accreditor for Upstarts
Two groups want to create new bodies that would review the academic quality of individual online courses or non-college providers.
When MOOC Profs Move
If a faculty member swaps institutions, who keeps the intellectual property rights to the massive open online course-- the professor, the university, or both?
The Sky Isn't Falling
Rhetoric about ed tech at SXSWedu and ACE meetings is more sober than soaring, as academics and experts talk about how to use emerging models.
Still Questioning the Model
MOOCs may be less of an investment for elite institutions, but Cornell, Princeton and Yale Universities still face familiar questions about investments, revenue and intellectual property rights.