10 lessons learned from MOOCs

Massive open online courses embarked on what was supposed to be their climb to world domination, or at least a complete transformation of higher education, in 2012. It was the "Year of the MOOC," as declared by The New York Times, and the so-called Big Three of MOOC providers taught their first courses that year. For-profit providers Coursera and Udacity launched in January and February of that year, respectively. And EdX, the non-profit collaborative venture of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launched its first MOOCs later that fall.