This is a problem that I'm working on, so it's nice to see others discussing it too. Most of the MOOC providers are "open" to learners but relatively "closed" f

This is a problem that I'm working on, so it's nice to see others discussing it too. Most of the MOOC providers are "open" to learners but relatively "closed" for contribution -- edX for instance is exclusive about which institutions can join. (And takes a hefty fee from every institution that does join.) All of which may be perfectly nice if you're an interested-but-casual learner wanting to watch some courses that have had $100,000s spent on the video production. Or if you're a high profile university wanting to advertise your wares. But not so much use if you're a humble engineer-turned-CS-lecturer wanting to collaborate with your colleagues to make things better for your students (or, therefore, if you're one of their students!) At UQ, my institution was a member, but with a curious process about how to get a course approved (and unlikely to approve a junior contract academic like I was). Moving onto faculty at the University of New England (Australia), UNE isn't a member so I wouldn't be eligible. So, I'm busily working sharable course models, and making things open-to-contribution. At UQ I co-designed a rather unusual studio course (with 200 students programming together on the same codebase). Initially I was looking into offering this as a guerrilla MOOC (without official backing) and opening the content up for reuse. I gave a talk at ICSE in July 2014, where I also tried to "get a gang together" to make it a community effort bigger than just me, and the response was interesting -- some other junior academics wondering about putting some of their students on our project. And as I'm moving to UNE to help redesign their CS degree, I'm already going to be an early example of a "fork". Especially as where we had 200+ in-class students at UQ, many of the students at UNE will be remote, so I'd need to change a few things. Most of the material I've put up online is about the studio course, but the sharable course model is also in progress Recent talk I gave to OSDC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SULsMJCNAYM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SULsMJCNAYM Website about the studio course concept: http://www.supercollaborative.org http://www.supercollaborative.org (due for an update -- 2014 course numbers jumped from 140 to 200 and had a different project) Of course, Armidale NSW isn't exactly Silicon Valley, so I don't have VC rocket fuel or marketing/publicity/etc. So expect a little duct-tape-and-string early on. And I did way too much theatre as a PhD student in Cambridge, so apologies for the vanity hey-I-get-to-do-video-teaching-now aspect of it.