I'm not surprised MOOCs have a high dropout rate: they're designed that way. You sign up for 2-3 of them and stay in the one you like most.
MOOCs are likely to have a great impact on the firewalled papers problem (JSTOR etc) by providing enough clout to build their own open repositories. And even tho MOOCs are the buzz now, there is also a lot on sites like Kahn Academy which are not courses in the usual sense but a learn on your own pace site. In its own way, it may be even more revolutionary and one of the heros of the JSEverywhere revolution has gotten involved (John Reisig https://github.com/jeresig). John's work is likely to have a huge effect on the actual course-ware world. -- Owen
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