What you get when Research and Community come together
This is a long post. What can I say? The MOOC made me do it! When 90% drop-out rate is less than a 10% drop-out rate English: A diagram of the geological time scale (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One of the foundations of the, I think largely unfounded, criticisms of the MOOC…
Read more →This post is part of the MOOC MOOC course of work. It outlines my journey (now lasting over a year) towards adopting elements of a MOOC in the Inclusive Technologies for Reading (#ITR12) course pilot starting this September. This not a description of the process, more a reflection towards the end of it. [toc] Update…
Read more →The crazy argument for Zero pedagogy [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Pedagogy does not matter. It has always been a discipline aimed at making people learn something they don't particularly want to learn. If we can truly provide open access to all the resources necessary for learning, then it…
Read more →My contribution on the subject of Space to the 2012 MOOC MOOC .
Read more →[toc] Introduction Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs for short, have been getting a lot of attention recently. There have been several high profile posts (see here for a summary ) complaining about the lack of clarity about what constitutes a MOOC (and I think this resulted in a more generalized MOOC backlash ). This…
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