Slides from Franny LeeKnowledgeable panelists will present significant studies that address such key measures as: Uptake and completion, Pedagogical success, Certification, Supporting Infrastructures, What does it Cost, and What happens next?, all of which significantly advance understanding of the place of online learning and MOOCs in contemporary education. Our aim is to go beyond the history and the hype (and the excellent stage-setting that was done last year at the Charleston Conference) to talk about real steps in understanding and exploiting distance learning.