What strikes me as relevant in this article about MOOCs is former Yale president Rick Levant taking credit for their invention. "Few other universities had yet grasped the potential in the broad outreach that MOOCs make possible," he says. "We did them at Yale in 2007 and one of the obvious benefits was enhancing access to education." Probably he's thinking of Yale's open content initiative, which started back then. Of course, open content is very different from open online courses, and Yale was very late to the table; according to Wikipedia the open courseware movement began in Germany in 1999.
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