Grainne Conole questions the xMOOCs / cMOOCs division and proposes
a new classification set of twelve dimensions: the degree of openness, the scale of participation (massification), the amount of use of multimedia, the amount of communication, the extent to which collaboration is included, the type of learner pathway (from learner centred to teacher-centred and highly structured), the level of quality assurance, the extent to which reflection is encouraged, the level of assessment, how informal or formal it is, autonomy, and diversity
linking it to the 7Cs of Learning Design.
Originally published in INNOQUAL – International Journal for Innovation and Quality in Learning, now dead with no archive.