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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
The argument against assessment in MOOCs is that traditional means are impossible due to the volume of students. Crowdsourcing provides quality assessment through its diversity and in its patterns of open discourse. Crowdsourced responses help the assessment activity to serve as a knowledge building tool for both the student and the participating community. The authors advance the argument that two indices of learning are a student's ability to integrate learning elements and the subsequent discourse initiated by the student's integration.
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/mooc.2013.0004
Interesting article on the evaluation of MOOCs, which introduces a new line, Crowdsourcing, that can improve one of the weaker points of these massive online course.