Views the MOOC hype with a slightly sceptical eye and pours some cold water on some of the more extreme speculations. "MOOCs will not inherently gut faculty positions in higher education. They do not have automation and robot grading built into their conceptual structure. They certainly offer the capacity for these things, if backed by scale and prestige and neoliberal values of efficiency and market niche domination"
"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
Perry Samson is presenting at ALT-C 2013. He is aiming to move classroom teaching on beyond use of clickers to more sophisticated (and also remote) forms of interaction
focusing on the subject specialism is the best way to engage teaching, support staff and students in conversations about what it means to be digitally literate in a particular discipline.
Aligned with that is the curriculum design process.