When I kicked off my plan to get my dissertation proposal done (last spring), I had earmarked this fall semester as the literature review semester. I had a sense that it would take quite some time to do, but I didn't think it would take me the entire fall semester.  I guess hope for the best, plan for the worst is the operative phrase. 

Over the past few years I've been collecting articles on MOOCs. Even though I could not read them at the time, I thought they might become useful down the road.  Now that I've started the literature review, it seems that my search net has brought some some of the same articles from years past (that I forgot I had).  Also, because articles on MOOCs tend to cite the same sources, sometimes I wonder if I've read the article before, or if I've seen it cited so many times, from so many different researchers, that I feel as though I've read it.  Anyway - only 27 more PDFs to read in this initial round of the literature review. Onward and upward...