In recent years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become a phenomenon presenting the prospect of free
high class education to anyone by offering the possibility to teach Thousands of participants simultaneously. The word of a disruptive technology rendering universities obsolete rumbled through the media. By now, as the dust has settled, a more conservative pattern is emerging: MOOCs are a highly effective and valuable tool in the context of lifelong learning. The format is facing a couple of challenges, however. Next to high drop out rates, the pedagogical concept is often criticized for its behaviorist background and frontal teaching styles. The MOOC format itself, originates in the connectivist teaching paradigm, which propagates a very dierent style of teaching and learning. In this tradition, learning is experienced as the collaborative act of creating a network of learners and digital artefacts, each focussing on certain aspects of a topic. The main problem here is that this approach is limited in its scalability; particularly in its outreach to an audience that is less committed and passionate or just limited in its access to resources, such as time and personal energy. The paper at hand examines the current situation in terms of collaboration features on various MOOC platforms and explores options to foster collaboration amongst participants in this context.