Times Higher Education explores the Canadian origin of MOOCs and interviews Stephen Downes and George Siemens who are credited with creating the first MOOC. They provide some thoughtful critique of current MOOCs. For example, Dr. Downes believes that modern MOOCs are placing less emphasis on providing an “interactive and dynamic” approach to learning: “Our goal was to encourage the development of learners through open and transparent learning, where the process of knowledge generation was iterative – improving on the ideas of other learners and generating new knowledge through continual…improvement. Most MOOCs today are more didactic.”