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Dave Cormier is an educational activist, researcher, online community advocate and the Manager of Web Communications and Innovations at the University of Prince Edward Island. He has published on o...
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Great article by one of the founders of the MOOC movement!
Cormier analyzes the way four different interest groups value the quality of MOOCs. Explicitly leaving out the learners he analyses quality from the perspective of:
1. Researchers
2. HE institutions
3. Governments
4. Venture Capitalists
Along the way he provides an important insight in the differences in the motives of several of the early pioneers of the MOOC movement:
"According to Downes in a recent Inside Higher Ed ‘MOOCs were “not designed to serve the missions of the elite colleges and universities….” but rather “designed to undermine them, and make those missions obsolete.”’ I facilitated a Friday discussion for CCK08 and had no specific intention towards undermining anything. I was rather more fascinated exploring the possibilities of having 2300 people working on the same topic at the same time. One of the central premises of MOOC doctrine is that students need to apply their own measurements of quality and success. The same could be said for the convenors."