I wanted to point you to another new course in open learning land. It’s called “Connected Courses”, it starts in September and is being organized by educators from ds106, FemTechNet, CLMOOC, etc, etc. I wrote about it here:
Thought you all would be interested 
The course sounds really interesting! There is a lot of overlap with the social learning course we are working on and the pre-alpha of that (the jekyll course experiment).
I wonder if there’s scope to collaborate, I reckon we know a thing or two about open online learning too 