MOOCs to cultivate networked textbooks part 1

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MOOCs to cultivate networked textbooks part 1
Dave Cormier, Dave’s Educational Blog, April 4, 2013
Cave Cormier has observed, as have many of us, that the newer xMOOCs are mostly just online interactive textbooks. Which raises the question, what are the other kinds of MOOCs, if thought of from the perspective of textbooks. Well, something like open textbooks. But the whole domain of open textbooks - it has a long history - is fraught with difficulty. More...