  New learning resources are created and minted in Massive Open Online Courses
every week -- new videos, quizzes, assessments and discussion threads are
deployed and interacted with -- in the era of on-demand online learning.
However, these resources are often artificially siloed between platforms and
artificial web application models. Facilitating the linking between such
resources facilitates learning and multimodal understanding, bettering
learners' experience.
  We create a framework for MOOC Uniform Identifier for Resources (MUIR). MUIR
enables applications to refer and link to such resources in a cross-platform
way, allowing the easy minting of identifiers to MOOC resources, akin to
#hashtags. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach to the automatic
identification, linking and resolution -- a task known as Wikification -- of
learning resources mentioned on MOOC discussion forums, from a harvested
collection of 100K+ resources. Our Wikification system achieves a high initial
rate of 54.6% successful resolutions on key resource mentions found in
discussion forums, demonstrating the utility of the MUIR framework. Our
analysis on this new problem shows that context is a key factor in determining
the correct resolution of such mentions.
