MOOCTHULHU: The MOOC Monster

Beginning December 2018, I am taking a break from regular updates to Hack Education (in the form of the “Hack Education Weekly News” and the monthly “Business of Ed-Tech” venture funding analysis, specifically). This project will also be dormant. Maybe I’ll pick it up after I’ve finished writing Teaching Machines....

As I alluded to on this site earlier, I have left the moocthulhu.com URL expire. What once felt like a good monster story now feels like a sad job training program. You will be able to find the site at moocthulhu.hackeducation.com (although it is quite likely that links are broken...

I do not plan to renew moocthlhu.com in May. At that time, this project will move to a hackeducation.com subdomain.

Happy New Year. I’ve made some changes to this site. Those who look closely will also note that I have also changed the copyright information. No longer is there a Creative Commons license on Hack Education material. This really doesn’t change much, I promise. It just means you have to...

I have added a script to my websites today that will block annotations – namely those from Genius and those from Hypothes.is. I have been meaning to do this for a while now, so it’s mostly a project that comes as I procrastinate doing something else rather than one that...

Yesterday, I paid the fifteen bucks to renew this domain. I’d originally thought that I’d let it go, as the MOOC monster seemed to have return to the depths. Although the big MOOC startups – Coursera and Udacity – have raised millions of dollars, with the latter becoming one of...

MOOC-related blogging on Hack Education from 2015: Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015: Beyond the MOOC Challenging MOOCs Draw Me: A History of MOOCs

This is an old site, but I'm going to start updating it with blog posts (and links to blog posts) about the MOOC monster.