So I somehow heard about a MOOC being offered by the folks behind Hybrid Pedagogy. It's called MOOC MOOC (a MOOC about MOOCs). I signed up and sort of got started today.
Holy Moley, are my eyes being opened! The MOOC ecosphere has been around a lot longer and is much more varied than I had imagined. I can't come close to explaining the scope of what I'm beginning to glimpse as well as Sean Michael Morris does in one of his blog posts: "Broadcast Education: a Response to Coursera". It was a reading for the one week course, which began today. Take a look and your eyes will be opened too.
At this moment, I feel like a "stranger in a strange land". More to come.