1. Participants
1.1. Types of Participants
1.1.1. Teachers
1.1.2. Researchers
1.1.3. Managers
1.1.4. Mentors
1.1.5. Engineers
1.1.6. Facilitators
1.1.7. Trainers
1.1.8. University professors
1.2. Age range of involvement
1.2.1. 18-55+
1.2.2. 43.5% 55+
1.3. Globally located
2. Attributes
2.1. Dispersed learning
2.2. Learner centered
2.3. Learner driven
2.4. Facilitator not always lead
3. Who is involved in a MOOC
3.1. Participants
3.1.1. Novice
3.1.1.1. Needs Scaffolding
3.1.1.2. Generally not a contributor at first
3.1.2. Expert (participated in a MOOC Before)
3.1.2.1. Creation of resources
3.2. Facilitators
3.2.1. Researchers
3.2.2. Evaluation Team
3.2.3. Instructional Designers
3.2.4. Production Team
3.2.5. Administrators paying for it
3.2.6. One or more instructors or content experts
3.2.7. Actors in videos
3.2.8. Teaching Assistants
3.2.9. MOOC experts and trainers
3.2.10. Retired faculty and outside experts
4. A "Place" of Learning
4.1. Comfortable space to share
4.2. A place for activities
4.3. A place for network building
4.4. Tools
4.4.1. LMS
4.4.2. twitter
4.4.3. blogs
4.4.4. Elluminate
4.4.5. Facebook
4.4.6. gRSShopper
4.5. A place for social network learning
4.5.1. Learner to Facilitator
4.5.2. Facilitator to Learner
4.5.3. Learner to learner
4.6. A place to collect resources
4.6.1. Interactive OERs
4.6.2. Videos
4.6.3. Articles
4.6.4. News letters that are aggregation of other resources