I've always been suspicious of the concept of 'self-regulation' as it sounds like one of those things authors say that poor people lack in order to explain how they are the authors of their own misfortune. In this paper, Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) means "refers to the processes whereby students1 plan, monitor, and reflect on their performance toward goal attainment," or to cite Zimmerman, it is "the degree to which students are metacognitively, motivationally, and behaviorally active participants in their own learning processes." Self-regulation, to my mind, can be contrasted with self-efficicacy, which attributes to students a sense of agency, and not merely a need to control oneself. And to my mind, it is the role of the MOOC to promote self-efficacy, rather than merely to require self-regulation.
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