“It is too soon to declare MOOC’s either a silly fad or a silver bullet. But it is not too soon to declare 2012 the year that the public finally understood the potential for adult learning on a global scale. When a 10-week survey in modern and contemporary American poetry attracts more than 20,000 students around the world—as one offered by Coursera apparently just did—something important is happening.” writes Ann Kirschner in the October 1 Chronicle blogpost A Pioneer in Online Education Tries a MOOC