ABSTRACT
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) has received considerable media coverage since the beginning of 2012. Opening up Education was launched in September 2013 as a coordinated European move to innovate learning and teaching through information and communication technologies (ICT) and to modernize education for the full spectrum of learners across all educational sectors through open educational resources (OER) and MOOCs. OpenupEd is an open, non-profit partnership offering MOOCs that contribute to open up education much to the benefit of individual learners and the wider society. Although there is diversity of institutional approaches, the partnership has agreed on the following framework of eight common features for its MOOCs: Openness to learners; Digital openness; Learner-centred approach; Independent learning; Media-supported interaction; Recognition options; Quality focus; Spectrum of diversity. This chapter focuses on how a decentralized model of MOOC collaboration with modest or light centralized coordination efforts might work while respecting the diversity in approaches.
