education have been discussed with great euphoria (1). An interesting aspect is that the
discussion is not only limited to scientific communities, but there are articles about MOOCs in
traditional mass media eg the Washington Post (2) or the Berliner Zeitung (3). What are
reasons for the “hype” of MOOCs? MOOCs seem to promise answers to long debated
questions; questions that have been discussed among researchers as well as people …