Group items tagged

A new VLE which is being targeted at people who want to run MOOC-style courses

Interesting data shared by Cousera founders, with pointers to further MOOC research

Even the fabled personalization that digital learning affords is really a form of mass customization. There is no personal relationship. It is a market of knowledge where no one is known and care is limited to the provision of choices. Whether its crusaders are venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, academics, or students, the colonizer is a transactional view of education, centered on knowledge as a commodity, which displaces a relational view of education, centered on developing through relationships. This in turn becomes, like all precious resources of colonial territories, no longer a common good but a leisurely privilege.

"Many MOOC's currently represent a sort of parody of higher education's worst practices, its most spectacular delusions about itself." Some pitfalls to avoid