A summary and critique of much recent writing on MOOCs, by a skeptical professor, is at

http://gasstationwithoutpumps.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/mooc-roundup/
MOOC roundup
Gas station without pumps (blog)
July 28, 2013

I’ve been collecting Massively Online Open Cours (MOOC) blog posts for a while now, with the intent of doing a careful response to each. There have gotten to be so many that I can’t do a careful response to each. At best, I’ll do a short summary or critique of each one. If the number of links here is overwhelming (as it was for me in writing this post), read the summaries to pick out a few that seem likely to be worth your time.