MOOC, SPOC, DOCC, Massive Online Face2Face Open... (Uh Oh!): Age of the Acronym

By Cathy Davidson. On Facebook, my pal John recently joked that we're not living in the Digital Age.  We're living in the Age of the Acronym:
MOOC (Massive Online Open Courseware), we all know about MOOCs.  @George Siemens coined the term in 2008.
SPOC (Self-Paced Open Course).  The students remixed course content in "Surprise Endings:  Social Science and Literature" and added a lot of content into seven open self-paced content units, including seven 20-minute video lectures on everything from self-control to racism, by myself and the famous behavioral economist Dan Ariely plus lots of course content on these topics .   Anyone can now take this SPOC:  http://www.hastac.org/blogs/kaysi-holman/2013/08/07/learn-about-self-control-racism-gender-much-more-introducing-self-pace
DOCC:  This Fall, FemTechNet is offering a very exciting feminist alternative to the MOOC.  DOCC is a Distributed Online Collaborative Course:  http://www.hastac.org/documents/recent-coverage-femtechnets-distributed-open-collaborative-course-docc-feminism-and-techno    This DOCC is intended to encourage us to rethink other models of online learning than the corporate, for-profit, elite "Doc on the Laptop" (I coined that phrase in, roughly, August 2013).
MO . . .:  And then there is our upcoming (January 2014)  "History and Future of Higher Education" course that is both a Coursera-sponsored MOOC (but with lots of P2P elements that we've added in) and it comes with a coordinated, distributed, Face-to-Face Component, with (so far) about seventeen different universities offering some version of this course, with Google Hang Outs, and Webinars, and other possibilities for open, public, cross-university and beyond interaction:  http://www.hastac.org/collections/history-and-future-higher-education     I guess that makes it a MOF . . .      Ah, yes.  The problem with acronyms. More...