Massive List of MOOC Resources, Lit and Literati

UPDATE 08.14.2012: This week marks the launch of MOOC MOOC, and given the insane amount of content that's already been produced, we're going to hold off on updating this ongoing list o' links. You can join in here, learn more here or follow along here. 

We've been following the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) movement for a couple years now because we and our clients are all engaged in online learning at some level, be it totally online, flipped or hybrid, or just lecture capture for on-demand replay. 

This spring, we had the opportunity to talk to many of our 1000 higher education clients at our Mediasite User Conference and other events like Sloan-C and UBTech. Through those conversations, we learned a ton about how they saw MOOCs within the online learning ecosystem, and we decided to share those findings in our June webinar, "A Practical Response to the MOOC Movement."

I gathered up everything we'd been reading, sharing, tweeting and watching into what feels like a Massive List of MOOC-ness. Even at this size it is by no means exhaustive of what else is out there. We hope to keep it up as the dialog, research and funding continues to evolve. And do take a sec to add your own favorites to the list.

A few godfathers and godmothers of thinking on MOOCs, connectivism, open education resources

• George Siemens
• Stephen Downes
• David Wiley
• Dave Cormier
• Candace Thille
• Alec Couros
• Wendy Drexler

Definitions and history of MOOCs in the media

• Massive open online course | Wikipedia
• 7 Things You Should Know About MOOCs | EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative [.pdf]
• The tangled Web of Online Learning….explained | Debbie Morrison, Online Learning Insights blog | June 16, 2012 
• The Language of MOOCs | Audrey Watters, Inside Higher Ed Hack [Higher] Education blog | June 7, 2012 
• What a MOOC Does - #Change11 | Stephen Downes, Half an Hour blog | March 1, 2012 
• MOOC 2011: The Massive Open Online Course in Theory and in Practice | Stephen Downes, Slideshare | September 10, 2011
• Comparing MOOCs, MIT’s OpenCourseWare, and Stanford’s Massive AI Course | Michael Atkisson Ways of Knowing blog | August 28, 2011
• MIT OpenCourseWare Turns 10: What’s Next for Open Education? | Audrey Watters, ReadWriteWeb | February 23, 2011
• What is a MOOC [video] | Dave Cormier, YouTube | December 8, 2010
• Auditing Classes at M.I.T., on the Web and Free | Carey Goldberg, New York Times | April 4, 2001

Debate and discussion about MOOCs, open education and online learning

• Parody Critiques Popular Khan Academy Videos | Angela Chen, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | June 28, 2012
• A Conversation With Bill Gates About the Future of Higher Education: On the Meaning of MOOCs | Jeffrey R. Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 25, 2012
• Conflicted: Faculty and Online Education, 2012 | Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed | June 21, 2012
• Heard: U.VA Board Ousts President Sullivan For Her Resistance To Online Courses | Wired Academic | June 21, 2012
• Can Free Online Courses Transform the Higher Education Industry? | Knowledge@Wharton | June 20, 2012
• “Why stay in college? Why go to night school? Gonna be different this time?” | Jonathan Rees, More or Less Bunk blog | June 19, 2012
• Some top colleges offer free online classes; what does that mean for the UW? | Todd Finkelmeyer, The Capital Times | June 7, 2012
• Synchronous Web Teaching Magic | Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Education Technology and Learning blog | June 7, 2012
• Higher Education's Online Revolution | John Chubb and Terry Moe, Wall Street Journal | May 30, 2012
• MOOC Mythbuster – What MOOCs are and what they aren’t | Debbie Morrison, Online Learning Insights blog | May 29, 2012
• MOOCs Inc | Martin Weller, The Ed Techie blog | May 28, 2012
• Are Universities Scared of the Online Learning Movement? | Peter Klein, The Christian Science Monitor | May 26, 2012
• MITx, Khan Academy, and Online Education Are No Substitute for In-School Learning | Andrew Hanson, PolicyMic | May 25, 2012
• The MOOC Halftime Report | Curtis J. Bonk, The EvoLLLution | May 24, 2012
• Playing the Role of MOOC Skeptic: 7 Concerns | Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed Technology and Learning blog | May 21, 2012
• MOOCs: The Prestige Factor | Keith Hampson, Alston Road Group | May 20, 2012
• As Elite Colleges Invite the World Online, Questions Remain on Their Business Plans | Jeff Selingo, The Chronicle of Higher Education Next blog | May 19, 2012
• Will MOOCs Promote Superstar Teaching Over Superstar Research At Princeton And Other Ivy Universities? | Paul Glader, Wired Academic | May 18, 2012
• Come the Revolution | Thomas Friedman, New York Times Opinion Pages | May 15, 2012
• The Big Idea That Can Revolutionize Higher Education: 'MOOC' | Laura McKenna, The Atlantic | May 11, 2012
• College Dot Com | David Brooks and Gail Collins, New York Times Opinionator | May 9, 2012
• How MOOCs Could Make Diverse Recruitment Actions Affirmative | Paul Glader, Wired Academic | May 8, 2012
• There's a whole lot of MOOC'en going on! (or: "The Multimedia MOOC") | Curtis J. Bonk, TravelinEdMan blog | May 7, 2012
• David Brooks Confuses MOOCs with Online Learning | Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Education Technology and Learning blog | May 6, 2012
• The Campus Tsunami | David Brooks, New York Times Opinion Pages | May 3, 2012
• The Problem With EdX | Bonnie Stewart, Inside Higher Ed University of Venus blog | May 2, 2012
• How Should Your University Respond to edX? | Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed Technology and Learning blog | May 2, 2012
• Open-Access Courses: How They Compare | The Digital Campus, The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 29, 2012
• 4 Reasons Why the Bonk MOOC is So Interesting | Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed Technology and Learning blog | April 25, 2012
• Running a MOOC | Steve Wheeler, Learning with 'e's blog | April 18, 2012
• Education as Platform: the MOOC experience and what we can do to make it better | Stephen Downes Half an Hour blog | March 23, 2012
• Treating Higher Ed's 'Cost Disease' With Supersize Online Courses | Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education | February 26, 2012
• Open CourseWare 2.0: Stanford’s open courses raise questions about true value of elite education | Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed | December 13, 2011
• The University of Wherever | Bill Keller, New York Times Opinion | October 2, 2011
• Modeling Learning Support in MOOCs in Netlogo | David Wiley, OpenContent.org | June 24, 2011
• Clarifying My Feeling Toward MOOCs | David Wiley, OpenContent.org | June 22, 2011
• Do open online courses have a role in educational reform? | George Siemens, Connectivism blog | June 22, 2011
• Online, Bigger Classes May Be Better Classes | Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education | August 29, 2010

Research on MOOCs

• Research publications on Massive Open Online Courses and Personal Learning Environments | Rita Kop, Personal Blog

Instructor experience in MOOCs

• In This Online University [Peer 2 Peer U.], Students Do the Teaching as Well as the Learning | Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 18, 2012
• 4 Professors Discuss Teaching Free Online Courses for Thousands of Students [Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, Blackboard] | Jeffrey Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 11, 2012
• How Open Education is Changing the Texture of Content | Frank Catalano, MindShift, KQED | May 31, 2012
• MOOCs and the Professoriate | Kaustuv Basu, Inside Higher Ed | May 23, 2012
• Coursera and MOOCs: From A Teacher’s Perspective | Dr. Chuck Severance, posted by Adam Marshall, Adam’s WebLearn Blog, Oxford University Computing Services | May 23, 2012
• Massive Open Online Courses: Taking Distance Learning To A New Level | Curtis J. Bonk, The EvoLLLution | May 4, 2012
• Massive Open Online Courses: How “The Social” Alters the Relationship Between Learners and Facilitators | Bonnie Stewart, Inside Higher Ed University of Venus blog | April 30, 2012
• 'Supersizing' the College Classroom: How One Instructor Teaches 2,670 Students | Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 29, 2012
• Open, Online and Connectivist: Lessons from our First MOOC | Yeager and Hurley-Dasgupta, SUNY Empire State College, Slideshare | April 28, 2012
• Facilitating a Massive Open Online Course | Stephen Downes, Slideshare | February 23, 2012

Student experience in MOOCs

• Coursera's CS101: Completed | Audrey Watters, Inside Higher Ed Hack [Higher] Education blog | May 28, 2012
• Thirsting for Knowledge? Try a MOOC | Amy Southerland, The Atlantic, May 24, 2012
• A Whole New U: one man’s quest to see if Udacity, one of a cluster of new, free online universities, can make programmers of us all | Kevin Charles Redmon, Pacific Standard, May 23, 2012
• 5 Things I've Learned From MOOCs About How I Learn | Audrey Watters, Inside Higher Ed Hack [Higher] Education blog | May 9, 2012
• Diary Of A Lifelong Learner Enrolling In Her First Massive Online Open Course | Marianne Dombroski, The EvoLLLution | May 1, 2012
• Leaving an open online class | Lisa Lane, Lisa’s (Online) Teaching Blog | April 30, 2012
• ‘Free-Range Learners’: Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Content Online | Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | April 25, 2012

Related writing on Open Education Resources

• Open Education Sites Offer Free Content for All | Tina Barseghian, MindShift, KQED | October 27, 2011
• 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) | Audrey Watters, Mind/Shift, KQED | May 5, 2011

MOOC launches, backing, funding, startups and stops

• Gates Foundation Gives $9-Million in Grants to Support ‘Breakthrough’ Education Models [MITx] | Jeffrey Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | June 19, 2012
• How Will MOOCs Make Money? | Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed | June 11, 2012
• New York Times to Suspend Online-Education Program | Angela Chen, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | June 11, 2012
• How Would You Like A Graduate Degree For $100? [Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun] | George Anders, Forbes | June 5, 2012
• MOOCs and Machines | Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed | May 10, 2012
• Explosion in Free Online Classes May Change Course of Higher Education [audio] | All Things Considered, NPR | May 9, 2012
• Massive Courses, Massive Data: Harvard joins MIT in platform to offer massive online courses | Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed | May 3, 2012
• EdX: A Platform for More MOOCs and an Opportunity for More Research about Teaching and Learning Online | Audrey Watters, Inside Higher Ed Hack [Higher] Education blog | May 2, 2012
• Harvard and MIT Put $60-Million Into New Platform for Free Online Courses | Nick DeSantis, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | May 2, 2012
• Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses | Tamar Lewin, New York Times Education | May 2, 2012
• Math MOOC – Coming this fall. Let’s Teach the World. | Keith Devlin, Devlin’s Angle blog | May 1, 2012
• New TED-Ed Site Turns YouTube Videos Into ‘Flipped’ Lessons | Nick DeSantis, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | April 25, 2012
• Online Education Venture Lures Cash Infusion and Deals With 5 Top Universities | John Markoff, New York Times | April 18, 2012
• Elite Universities’ Online Play | Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed | April 18, 2012
• Coursera, the Other Stanford MOOC Startup, Officially Launches with More Poetry Classes, Fewer Robo-Graders | Audrey Watters, Hack Education | April 18, 2012
• Online-Education Start-Up [Coursera] Teams With Top-Ranked Universities to Offer Free Courses | Nick DeSantis, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | April 18, 2012
• Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls | Tamar Lewin, New York Times Education | March 4, 2012
• MIT to launch MITx learning platform, offer free teaching materials in 2012 | Zach Honig, engadget | December 20, 2011
• Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course | John Markoff, New York Times | August 15, 2011
• U. of Illinois at Springfield Offers New ‘Massive Open Online Course’ | Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | June 21, 2011
• Five Ways Silicon Valley is Changing Education | Tina Barseghian, MindShift, KQED | April 15, 2011

MOOC-related models of credentialing

• Who Will Benefit from Badges (and Other New Forms of Credentialing)? | Audrey Watters, The Chronicle of Higher Education Hack [Higher] Education | July 2, 2012
• Online Degree Program Lets Students Test Out of What They Already Know | Angela Chen, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | June 20, 2012
• Making It Count | Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed | June 15, 2012
• Beyond the College Degree, Online Educational Badges | Tamar Lewin, New York Times Education | March 4, 2012

MOOC sites, classes and institutions who MOOC

• Bonk CourseSites for Blackboard
• Coursera
• Change 2011 | “Mother of all MOOCs”
• Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2011
• eduMOOC
• edX (Harvardx and MITx)
• Introduction to Openness in Education, Winter 2012
• iTunes U
• Khan Academy
• Math MOOC
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Open Learning Initiative
• P2PU (Peer to Peer University)
• PLEK12
• TED-Ed
• Udacity
• Udemy

MOOC-ish initiatives and open education resources from Mediasite users

• Permaculture course HS 432 HS 590 by NC State
• Astronomy course GSCI 313 by Evangel University
• CSCI N331 VB.NET Programing and others by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
• Multiple courses including Engineering 651 and 652 by Lowcountry Graduate Center
• BUS 1750 Haworth College of Business at Western Michigan University

And last but not least, here’s the book one of our webinar panelists authored on distributed learning:

• Havice, W.L. and Havice, P. A., Editors, (2005). Distance and Distributed Learning Environments: Perspectives and Strategies. (54th Yearbook, Council on Technology Teacher Education.). Peoria, IL: MacMillan/McGraw-Hill.