Tag: MOOC

MOOCs Stadium Rock or folk clubs

Choose your metaphor. The discourse around MOOCs is congealing around a set of qualities. Bigger better; inherited authority; transmitted knowledge; cognitivist construction; solitary interaction with content. To some extent it is a matter of taste. Or learning preference. Or community. I saw the Police play Twickenham once. It was OK. Entertaining. But nothing was challenged. … Continue reading MOOCs Stadium Rock or folk clubs

How do we sustain participation in open online courses

First, sustaining participation is a design question. Thought has to be given to this question. You have, at least to consider the do-nothing option. This question was asked in etMooc over here (maybe) in a Google+ community. I replied: Tell me about it, and I am an experienced MOOCer & online course runner of things. … Continue reading How do we sustain participation in open online courses

The reification of Learning Design

This is a reflection for the OLDS-MOOC on the  underpinning principles that I apply when designing and developing educational interventions at various scales. When IMS LD was developed it aimed to address what were seen as limitations in SCORM (or here)  and IEEE LOM. Learning Design (LD) as a learning technology software specification was intended … Continue reading The reification of Learning Design

Launch of the OLDS MOOC

Well things didn't look promising at 1600. Cloudworks database error, and YouTube livestream not streaming. The QT feed from the OU worked. But the uni-directional presentation with no back channel or discussion forum (well there is Twitter!) made it a bit well... lacking? Twitter was sort of engaged but mostly with the tech problems for … Continue reading Launch of the OLDS MOOC

Setting up for the OLDS MOOC

I am familiarising myself with the OLDS MOOC. It will be very interesting to see if Cloudworks works as a learning platform. I am going to see if I can consume this blog into a cloudscape. I do not intend to use a different blogging platform for the course. In fact I wonder why they … Continue reading Setting up for the OLDS MOOC