MOOCs are a red herring. The MOOC didn’t appear last week, out of a void,
vacuum-packed. The MOOC hasbeen around for years [http://mooc.ca/], biding its
time. Still, the recent furor about MOOCs, which some have called“hysteria,”
[http://cogdogblog.com/2012/07/17/mooc-hysertia/]opens important questions