Harvey, L A
Glinsky, J V
Lowe, R
Lowe, T
Article History
Received: 20 June 2014
Revised: 29 July 2014
Accepted: 3 August 2014
First Online: 21 October 2014
Competing interests
: The course was not funded and no one received any financial benefit from being involved. The two course coordinators did however receive some local funding from their workplace to contribute to salary support for a small portion of the time they devoted to the course. Physiopedia received no financial assistance to manage the course. They do however receive sponsorship from Elsevier, which in turn receives publicity through Physiopedia. Elsevier did also inadvertently receive publicity through the Facebook postings. Elsevier and LA Harvey may also have indirectly benefited through any sales of the course text book generated by the MOOC (even though all course delegates were provided with free online access to the text book for the duration of the MOOC).