Stanford professor Keith Devlin provides an overview of his experience at the recent MOOC Research Initiative (MRI) conference, which was led by a band of “Canadian online-education pioneers.” He argues “If you want to see the future of MOOCs, you need to hang around with the instructors in the lesser known, small universities and community colleges who, for many years, have been experimenting with online learning.” He further states “Recent headlines may have given the impression that MOOCs were a short-lived bubble, and the experiment has largely failed. Nothing could be further from the truth.” His takeaway from the conference is that while it is not understood where MOOCs are heading, “the problem is not an absence of good ideas or useful leads; rather the opposite.”