The document provides a brief history and overview of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It defines MOOCs as massive, open, online courses and notes that while early MOOCs focused on connecting networks of learners, more recent MOOCs emphasize curriculum and assessment like a traditional textbook. As an example, it discusses the University of Edinburgh offering six MOOCs on the Coursera platform that have attracted over 300,000 students since 2012. It also notes a tension between individual learner-centered and curated/distributed network models of MOOCs.

1. Education on the Open Web:
The MOOC Experience
A talk given to the Book Industry Study
Group, February 7th, 2013.

2. @cogdog

3. History of MOOCs
A Definition
An Example
A Tension Pair
Two Courses
Some Concluding Thoughts

4. Short History of MOOCs
Pre-2008
2008 – CCK08
2009-2010 – 10K students
2011 – Stanford AI
2012 – year of the MOOC
2013?

5. One Definition

6. Massive

7. Open
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neosnaps/2596044654/sizes/o/in/photostream/

8. Online

9. Course

10. One Example

11. University of Edinburgh
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lljohnston/7576247296/sizes/c/in/photostream/

12. More than 300,000 people have
signed up to the University of
Edinburgh's free massive open online
courses (MOOCs) since they were
first announced in July 2012
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?
sectioncode=26&storycode=422568&c=1

13. The university is offering six courses
on the Coursera platform

14. The majority of the courses run for
five weeks and include "Astrobiology
and the Search for Extra-terrestrial
Life", "Artificial Intelligence Planning",
"Introduction to Philosophy" and
"Equine Nutrition".

15. Edinburgh said it aims to attract
10,000 distance learning students
over the next decade. It currently has
nearly 2,000 students enrolled on
online taught master's programmes.

16. One Tension Pair

18. Individual
Curated Distributed
Network

19. Individual
XMOOC The Learner
Curated Distributed
Hybrid CMOOC
MOOC
Network

20. Two Courses

23. Brand of the individual

24. MOOCs as textbook

25. One Bonus Model

26. Brand MOOCs

27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcobellucci/3534516458/

28. @davecormier
davcormier@upei.ca
http://xedbook.com