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...
View ArticleDrop ins: MOOCs and the price of learning
As an undergraduate in the US in the early 1970s, it was not uncommon for there to be people in our classes “auditing” the course. (Auditing in the sense, “listening”, i.e. attending but not enrolled.)...
View ArticleMOOCs and teaching: a reply to Stephen Downes
Stephen Downes is unfairly hard on teachers and teaching in this post (The Great Rebranding), or may have fallen into a (rare) category error. Yes, given the way the world is organised the 25:1 or 50:1...
View ArticleLearning design principles: educational pragmatists
I am trying to write a proper academic paper about the principles we used when developing FSLT12&13. But, as I do I find myself getting bogged down. So in the spirit of Digital scholarship (Weller...
View ArticleA note on content, courses/curricula, and credentials
This note recounts a potted recent history of developments to do with online content and courses and speculates about the future of credentials in respect of the purpose of a university. When learning...
View ArticleFSLT16 Joining Instructions
First Steps into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (#fslt16) 20 January – 26 February 2016 Hello all Thank you for your interest in First Steps into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education...
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