Although not a book, I blatantly self-recommend my personal blog(in Chinese, could use Google translate) on Online Education here(http://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/flip

Although not a book, I blatantly self-recommend my personal blog(in Chinese, could use Google translate) on Online Education here(http://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/flippedclassroom http://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/flippedclassroom). I'm an investor focused on online education and for multiple years worked as a product manager, helped create multiple online learning apps that have 10m+ users in China, top 50 in Chinese app store. My blog has a few thousand subscribers including CEOs, product managers, and VCs. If there is an audience, I could write English articles too. To answer your question about MOOCs, actually, MOOCs aren't a good example of online learning at all. Somehow most universities did not think thoroughly enough how online learning should be revolutionalized and redesigned, so they just thought videos+quizes+forums would just work. The best kind of online learning I am seeing is a funnel like this: 1. Fragmented Knowledge: Provide users with bite-sized knowledge, before letting them dedicate their time to online courses. Gives users motivation to start learning. 2. Systematic Online Learning: Provide users with interactive learning content, which should be both engaging and filled with theory and practice. Gives users a basic knowledge of the topic, does not ensure the users' internalization of knowledge. 3. Blended Learning: Provide users with coaching service, mostly in 1v1 or small classes. Gives users motivation, mentoring and monitoring, this ensures the internalization of knowledge. Online learning should be social, should be gamified, should be adaptive, should be practical. Most MOOCs barely are like that, when we are talking about online education, many startups in China are ahead of Silicon Valley. Chinese parents are more interested in their children's education than most other parents in the world, the enormous housing bubble is mostly encouraged by "school district housings"(学区房), where parents buy 10 square meter apartments in Haidian, Xicheng, Dongcheng district in Beijing just to let their children go to some famous public school.