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
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@Downes calls attention to MIT Tops List of College Copyright Violators
If we represented truly the worst-case scenario, then copyright infringement can’t be a really big problem, because we don’t have that much via chronicle.com I think the lesson here is that fair use practice in education has to lead legislation, not be driven by it. MIT has led the OER movement. As a pioneer and … Continue reading @Downes calls attention to MIT Tops List of College Copyright Violators
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