This is a really great initiative.

I've always found the UI & UX of MOOCs to be too close to the old brick & mortar classroom system & not native enough to what the internet can intrinsically offer. Maybe the steemit, with its rewards system, can help this. Much of academia is run who socialists anyway.

As a former academic, my biggest hope is for something like Steem to thoroughly disrupt academic publishing, particularly replacing journals with their corrupt peer-reviewing.