ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on online learning and examine a corpus of online learner comments collected from three separate deliveries of a course entitled ‘How to Read Your Boss’. ‘How to Read Your Boss’ is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) generated by colleagues at the Linguistic Profiling for Professionals (LiPP) research centre at the University of Nottingham and the MOOC is hosted by The Open University Platform ‘FutureLearn’. Online teaching ensures that materials are up-to-date and allow learners to contact experts from around the world. One of the affordances of the Web is the capacity to bring people together around a shared interest. For educators, this relates to the dissemination of ideas and the opportunity to work with large and widespread student cohorts. For learners, the opportunity to take courses offered by experts from around the globe and work with peers from an array of backgrounds has generally been celebrated as a fundamental asset of online learning spaces.
