Hi Jeffrey,

you might want to join a thread on Research Ethics in MOOCs in the Google Group devoted to research interests: http://groups.google.com/group/mooc_research
There are some interesting posts. I also posted my take on issues of anonymity, informed consent as a work in progress.
To tell the truth I regret the ‘public’ Moodle forums of the previous MOOC (PLENK 2010): they provided a sort of narrative of coherence to the mass of contributions. This way it seems to me more dispersed. But maybe it is only the first week…
Best,
antonella