Here are three widely held beliefs that contradict the research. What are some generally held beliefs or potential myths about learning online that you have encountered?

Creating assessments that are authentic and go beyond the standard multiple choice in a large online course requires creativity. Here are three cases we’ve worked with to provide some inspiration.

MOOC enrollments are affected by several macro factors like age, brand and topic. The most popular topic surprised me.

Curricu.me builds open, online courses with our clients. But in 2013, it was build around aggregating MOOC “curriculums”.

Self-paced courses were introduced in 2015 and expanded rapidly in a short time. We review the edX.org course catalog to see where it landed and explore what is behind the rise of self-paced.

Research would do well to add open online courses to their dissemination plan in order to reach a growing, global, and largely untapped audience of people interested in its findings.

What kind of learning outcomes we realistically set in an open, online course? And how can constructive alignment support better outcomes?