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"Recently Scott E. Page did a presentation at the University of Wisconsin Center for Educational Innovation where he reviewed his experience teaching his Model Thinking course twice through online course provider Coursera. .. The presentation runs a little more than an hour, ... [it] gives is a very interesting insight into the process of creating a very successful MOOC ... It’s not very often that I sit through an hour-long video, but this one really did grab my attention. It was a well-told story by a thoughtful academic who believes that universities have the capacity to share important ideas with learners who never would have had access to them before."
Via Peter B. Sloep, Susie Macfarlane
I did not sit through the entire video, so you have to take Gene Roche's word for it. However, Gene's blog post gives a very good summary of what it takes to produce a MOOC and what Page's mission was when producing it. There's one sentence I want to share with you here: "As he [Page] emphasizes several times throughout the program, the real mission of the university is having an impact on the way students (and others) think — not in turning a profit." That of course stands in an interesting contrast with the intentions of the MOOC providers. (@pbsloep)