Legal education xMOOCs: A mirage in the Australian regulatory environment?

The information revolution has changed the way that we access information, share knowledge and how we learn. It has transformed some parts of society such as the news and entertainment media, yet the internet has had surprisingly little impact on the core business of Australian tertiary legal education in law and in other disciplines. By and large the regular semester cycle of lectures, tutorials and assessment has not faced the same disruptions as other sectors of society. Learning innovations such as the xMOOC (Massive Open Online Course) has been a game-changer in many educational fields internationally, but in Australia there have only been tentative experiments in the format partially due to the strict regulatory environment that threatens to transform the promise of the xMOOC to a mere mirage on the horizon.