![]() It’s the projects that motivate my students… and I sure would be motivated if there were some kind of project aspect to this MOOC. For this MOOC, though, it seems like it is 100% reading/blogging, without any kind of project at all… whereas with these participants, I would vote for something more like 25% content and 75% project, where we would all be doing some kind of project related to the topic of the MOOC, while sharing our projects online – individual projects, small group projects, big group projects, whatever, but projects of some kind. For the students I work with, that seems like a good balance. In the two courses I teach for example – Myth-Folklore & Indian Epics – there’s about a 50-50 split between the reading/blogging and the website projects the students choose to work on. Just looking at the blog, I can think of so many things you and I might have in common – nice! (I don’t teach foreign languages right now, but that is my background now I teach English composition.) Anyway, I agree with you about the content – I’ve focused on the design problems at Blackboard, but I think the class content reflects the same kind of problem. Verena, the way Lisa has set up this blog is just great because it does something we cannot do there at the Blackboard MOOC – since you entered your website address when you left the comment, I was able to click on your name and it took me to your blog. I’m staying to learn more about why it is so unMOOClike to try and distinguish what freedoms are being squashed…but I wanted to thank you for making it “a real MOOC” by posting your thoughts…. Veletsianos speaks about the scholars vs Networked Participatory Scholarship….You are offering networked participatory scholarship here (assuming that everyone posting has a Masters or more:) )….but limiting the connections within a MOOC….is unMOOClike…? So tell me…from your perspective…do we really need all the content? Do we really need all the readings? I’m wondering where the videos are….what about Flipped Learning? Talk to me in a video, give me the content orally….I am new to MOOC’s – is it normal to always have so many readings?Īnd if it’s about spontenaity and networks, I think Alec is right…aren’t you doing that right now?ĭr. Last night, after reading through the #change11 readings by George Veletsianos ( ), I just couldn’t make it to the next readings for the new MOOC. Laura – It is only my second MOOC is as many weeks…and it is big. You’ll say…well, I don’t know what you’ll say, since I won’t be in the class. I think of these things as being what open, online classes are all about. I blame my own class at Pedagogy First!. I’m used to aggregated blogs, embedded media, distributed conversation. I blame George Siemens, Stephen Downes and Alec Couros. I will be happy to read Bonk’s works, on my own, and blog about them. I don’t use Bb anymore for exactly this reason. Pretty evident, then, that the main discussion would be in those horrible forums. Yes, I could add a link to my own blog to the wiki, but that’s not exactly integrated into the course. I’m not going to blog inside a closed system, even if it’s open at the moment. That’s good! I can blog as I go, on my own blog! And everyone will read it, and there will be comments, and I can comment on theirs! Oh…. There are 30 pages of introductions.Ī sense of chore, of overwhelming ennui, engulfed me. Each person had started their own “thread” to introduce themselves, necessitating opening each one at a time or collecting those on the page. With each iteration of Bb, I find it harder to believe they’ve done nothing with forums. I went over to the discussion to introduce myself, and oh dear. Well, it’s the same old Blackboard, with more white space, nicer fonts and some cool icons.įirst assignment included two 44-page pdf files that were expensive to print and difficult to read online since they were double-spaced. I’m always very interested in learning management systems, and what they can do. I wanted to attend to see the new CourseSites from Blackboard, which is being touted as Bb’s “open” LMS. It’s a class about retaining, motivating and engaging online students, and I’m leaving because I’m not motivated and not engaged. I’m leaving Curt Bonk’s open online class “ Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success”, which started this week.
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