UW-Madison Professor Kris Olds shares in Inside Higher Ed the product of a mapping exercise he facilitated to make more sense of the emerging global footprints of massive open online course (MOOC) platforms. "While the politics of MOOCs are primarily national in orientation, the developmental agendas of MOOC platforms like EdX, Coursera, FutureLearn, iversity, et al, are scaled beyond the nation, such that they incorporate multiple world regions with respect to partners and students."