Hi Moodlers,
I recently wrote a blog article about new approaches to courses drawing from ideas that Moodle was founded upon (Social Constructivism) and MOOCs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
If you work in second language acquisition I'd like to hear your thoughts on the subject.
http://blog.matbury.com/2011/09/20/an-alternative-approach-to-eflesl-course-design/