This is my introduction to the other participants on the #EdStartUp MOOC. My main interest in taking the course is to explore ways of squaring up the demands of a sustainable business or other funding model with openness. My key question is how can we run open courses with open …
Mind map Inspired by a Tweet and related to my post on What is and what is not a MOOC, I decided to make a little concept map to put a few things in context of each other. Download and remix policy: Do it! You can download the map file from …
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 One of the foundations of the, I think largely unfounded, criticisms of the MOOC is the high drop out rate. But I think this …
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 …
The crazy argument for Zero pedagogy 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 won’t matter what order, format, etc. …
My contribution on the subject of Space to the 2012 MOOC MOOC.
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 …