Comments on: Learning from our MOOC-stakes and sharing learning designs

By: Sheilamacneill

Sheilamacneill — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:20:01 +0000

I was wondering if they had asked the participants to form groups and not provided any solutions then things might have been different too. Also pulling the whole course so nothing available counter productive too

By: Arthur Oglesby

Arthur Oglesby — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:14:49 +0000

Someone asked if the foemooc might have designed in the failure so as to motivate participants to cooperate in order to fix their learning environment. I doubt it but might consider such a scenario in a MOOC of my own. My dream is to design a self-assembling learning environment.

By: Sheilamacneill

Sheilamacneill — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:43:31 +0000

Thanks Iain. Yes being more explicit that this is all a huge experiment would be great.

By: iainmacl

iainmacl — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:39:47 +0000

another excellent post there, Sheila. After all we can only learn by experimenting and seeing what works and what doesn’t. The danger with the coursera related hype is that some folk genuinely believe that they are signing up for a high quality learning experience provided by the ‘best professors at the best universities’ . If the billing was ‘volunteers sought to try out new approaches to learning’, then perhaps there would have been quite a different reaction.