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#101creativeideas is an Open Education Resource project to gather and share novel ideas around learning and teaching that foster and nurture imagination, curiosity and creativity in higher education. These ideas are from practitioners for practitioners as sharing can help us all grow as individuals and as a collective. 
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Original vision lost in scramble for profit and repackaging of old ideas, say pair
Leo Havemann's comment,
October 17, 2013 9:08 AM
"Downes fears that modern Moocs are placing less emphasis on providing an “interactive and dynamic” approach to learning (such as he championed with his 2008 course) and more on “static and passive” education.<br><br>“Moocs as they were originally conceived…were the locus of learning activities and interaction, but as deployed by commercial providers they resemble television shows or digital textbooks with – at best – an online quiz component,” he argues."
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Why are MOOCs innovative? They provide alternative ways for students to gain new knowledge according to a given curriculum. MOOCs can also enhance learners’ ability to think creatively to select and adapt a paradigm to solve the problem at hand. These are the main findings of a case study on the Discrete Optimization MOOC on Coursera.
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Tina Seelig serves as the Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, a center that teaches students entrepreneurial skills needed to solve major world problems.
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