A Far Cry from School History: Massive Online Open Courses as a Generative Source for Historical Research | Gallagher | The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning

Abstract: "Current research into Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) has neglected the potential of using learner comments for discipline-specific analysis. This article explores how MOOCs, within the historical discipline, can be used to generate, investigate, and document personal narratives, and argues that they serve as a rich platform for historical resource generation. [...] "