If UniMelb VC Glyn Davis wants to learn about mindfulness he can do it closer to home than Charles Sturt U (CMM yesterday). A learned reader reports the Monash U MOOC, “Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance,” is now running for an eighth time (via FutureLearn) and has reached 230 000 learners.  Creators Craig Hassed and Richard Chambers have a sequel, “Maintaining a Mindful Life” which launches in November.

Hassed and Chambers’ first Mindfulness MOOC, is on reviewing site Class Central’s all-time top 50 MOOCs (“based on thousands of reviews), along with the University of Tasmania’s, Understanding Dementia and the University of Queensland’s The Science of Everyday Life. The potential for universities to extend their brands and just plain help people via MOOCs knows no bounds.