Main reading
Brown, J. S. (2005). New Learning Environments for the 21st Century. http://www.johnseelybrown.com/newlearning.pdf
Daniel, J. (2013). Making Sense of MOOC’s: Musings in a maze of myths, paradox and possibility. Journal of Interactive Media in Education. http://tinyurl.com/ak8qvdv
Fischer, G. (2013). Promises, Limitations, and Synergies of Rich Learning Landscapes: Exploring Frames of Reference for Massive, Open, Online Courses (MOOCs). http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/reports/moocs-draft2013.pdf
Eisenberg, M. and G. Fischer: MOOCs: A Perspective from the Learning Sciences (to be published in the ICLS’2014 proceedings).
Fischer, G. (2014). From Renaissance Scholars to Renaissance Communities: Learning and Education in the 21st Century (submitted to: Special Issue on Contemporary Computer Supported Collaboration: Systems, Technologies, Algorithms and Applications, Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience (CCPE) Journal, WILEY.
Scientific American (2013, August). Learning in the Digital Age (Special Report). http://www.scientificamerican.com/editorial/digital-education/
Yuan, L., & Powell, S. (2013). MOOCs and Open Education: Implications for Higher Education (a White Paper). http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2013/667
Matkin, G. (2013). Massive Online Open Courses: Looking ahead by looking back. Continuing Higher Education Review, Vol. 77. http://www.unex.uci.edu/pdfs/dean/matkin_2014_moocs.pdf
Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education — A Summit hosted by MIT and Harvard University , Cambridge, MA, March 3 and 4, 2013. http://onlinelearningsummit.org/prematerials.html
Stensaker, B. Maassen, P., Borgan, M., Oftebro, M., & Karseth, B. (2007). Use, updating and integration of ICT in higher education: Linking purpose, peopleand pedagogy. Higher Education, 54, 417-433.
Recommended reading
Fischer, G. (2001). Communities of Interest: Learning through the Interaction of Multiple Knowledge Systems, 24th Annual Information Systems Research Seminar In Scandinavia (IRIS'24), Ulvik, Norway, pp. 1-14. http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/iris24.pdf
Fischer, G. (2011). Understanding, Fostering, and Supporting Cultures of Participation, ACM Interactions XVIII.3 (May + June 2011), pp. 42-53.
Hansen, D. (2011). The Teacher and the World: A Study of Cosmopolitanism as Education. London and New York: Routledge, 2011.
Illich, I. (1971). Deschooling Society,Harper and Row, New York.
National-Research-Council (2009). Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits,National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
Opinion articles
Bates, Tony (2012). What’s right and what’s wrong about Coursera-style MOOCs. http://www.tonybates.ca/2012/08/05/whats-right-and-whats-wrong-about-coursera-style-moocs/#sthash.i756gScp.dpuf
Amy Bruckman (2013). VLRCs (MOOCs): The Aggravating and the Important (VLRCs = Very Low teacher/student Ratio Courses). http://nextbison.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/vlrcs-moocs-the-aggravating-and-the-important/
Rolf Schulmeister (2012). As Undercover Students in MOOCs (in German). http://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/konferenzen/-/k/14447
Course and technology providers
Andrew Ng (2013). Learning From MOOCs. http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/01/24/essay-what-professors-can-learn-moocs
Peter Norvig (2013). http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-make-online-courses-massively-personal-peter-norvig
Daphne Koller (2012 — TED Talk). What we're learning from online education. http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html
Controversies
An Open Letter to Professor Michael Sandel From the Philosophy Department at San Jose State U. http://chronicle.com/article/The-Document-an-Open-Letter/138937
Amherst College faculty vote against joining edX. http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N23/edX.html
University Suspends Online Classes After More Than Half the Students Fail. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/07/19/
san_jose_state_suspends_udacity_online_classes_after_students_fail_final.html
F is for Failure; Or, Don’t Invest Your Pension in MOOCs Yet. http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2013/07/f-is-for-failure-or-dont-invest-your-pension-in-moocs-yet/