Just read this and I think it is a highly interesting texts. MOOCs are currently a big topic at many universities, yet dropout rates are as high as 97%. Here is a text by Harvard's
Ned Hall that takes the entire concept into question and provides a couple of good points on why he does so.
MOOCs and MOOTs are different things, and we should be working a lot more on the latter than the former. A MOOT is a Massive Open Online Text, a flexible on-line teaching tool that combines searchable, comment-on-able text, multimedia, tools for peer-to-peer collaboration and feedback, and who knows what other goodies we haven't thought of yet.
