Our recent publication:
Joksimovic, S., Kovanovic, V., Jovanovic, J., Zouaq, A., Gasevic, D., & Hatala, M. (2015). What do cMOOC participants talk about in Social Media? A Topic Analysis of Discourse in a cMOOC. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK15), March 16-20, 2015, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA (156-165). ACM, New York, NY, USA.
caught the attention of Stephen Downes, one of the leading names in the digital education/online learning domain. He points out that his experiences in cMOOCs are quite similar to the findings that our study has showed. Read his full posting here: http://downes.ca/post/63564/