Here are some overview articles about MOOCs:
What Campus Leaders Need to Know About MOOCs
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB4005.pdf
What You Need to Know About MOOCs (Timeline)
http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/133475/
MOOCs Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/editorial-tags/moocs
The Minds Behind the MOOCs
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC/137905/#id=overview
7 Things You Should Know About MOOCs
http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-know-about-moocs
Educause and MOOCs
http://www.educause.edu/library/massive-open-online-course-mooc
A massive open online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no limit on attendance. This ELI 7 Things You Should Know About MOOCs (November 2011) provides additional key facts about MOOCs.
How to create a MOOC and best practices by other universities:
Vanderbilt and Coursera
http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/teaching-guides/online-education/moocs/
Coursera Resource Guide
http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/files/coursera.pdf
Penn State University and Coursera
http://www.upenn.edu/ctl//resources/openlearning/
Instructor Perspectives
http://www.upenn.edu/ctl//resources/openlearning/instructors_experiences_other_faculty_perspectives
General Copyright from Penn State
http://guides.library.upenn.edu/content.php?pid=244413&sid=3375306
Georgia Tech Teaching a MOOC: Lessons Learned & Best Practices by Tucker Balch
http://augmentedtrader.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/mooc-teaching-lessons-learned-best-balch-practices/
About MOOC Completion Rates: The Importance of Student Investment by Tucker Balch
http://augmentedtrader.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/about-mooc-completion-rates-the-importance-of-investment/
Defining completion rates are not so simple...
About Tucker Balch
Tucker
is a professor at Georgia Tech.
A member of the School of Interactive Computing
where he teaches courses on robotics and machine learning
in finance. He is also the CTO of Lucena Research LLC.
Duke MOOC:
http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/6216
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/stratedgy/big-mooc-data
This resource was compiled by Shery Hathaway, Sr. Instructional Designer, UC Irvine. (Created March 25, 2013)