Maha,

I agree with you that DeHaye’s account, if it ever surfaces, will fill in important missing details. This might be a minor offense, a forgivable miscalculation. I’ve had a chance to hear AK speak about MOOCs and I’ve read his blog a number of times in the past few years. I don’t feel I know him, just a little of his work. The familiarity that I feel is that I know what it’s like to take an open course and put your work into digital spaces at others’ invitation. The implied scale of MOOCs might entice others to play similar stunts to the one it looks like DeHaye played in an ill-conceived effort to teach. (Is this like when teachers ask their students to vandalize Wikipedia to show them how unreliable Wikipedia is?) Since he’s teaching in the open and getting attention for this situation, and since one of his participants is commenting openly, it is important to scrutinize DeHaye by seeing if his approach was one that valued AK’s time, attention and intention. In this case it looks like he really underestimated the learner.