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Prezi by Jenny Mackness, sui Fai John Mak, and Roy Williams on MOOCs, offered at Networked Learning Conference, posted April 2010.

Jenny Mackness does it again: making important distinctions between curriculum led and community led learning within MOOCs; and how the balance may change based on successful formation of learning groups within the MOOC. She also asks about the difference between learning design and planning for learning. 1.14.23 on her blog.

blog post by Jenny Mackness on lurking in MOOCs and elsewhere, December 11, 2010. Raises issue on what is lurking? Is it absolutely no visible participation, some participation, or a full range of visible participation in several forums such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc.? Why does lurking have to be viewed as negative or positive? Are obsessively-reflective learners automatically lurkers and therefore, not wanted in a MOOC?

Blog-post by Jenny Mackness, June 2011, summarizing key points from Etienne Wenger's address "Communities of practice CoPs have implications for organisations as they might be working under the radar of vertical accountability of the organisation (working on a horizontal dimension) Communities of practice cannot be built. Only members can build communities. But they can be enabled. A CoP is a learning partnership. A group may or may not be a learning partnership. A team is not usually a community of practice. A CoP is a vehicle by which an organisation can place its strategic development in the hands of the practitioners. A classroom is not a CoP. It is instructional design. Knowledge and learning Knowledge is power. Learning is a claim to competence. Learning is power in both directions. Learning is its own enemy. The paradox is that learning gives you power, but that power also limits your learning. Power and knowledge are always part of the equation. Learning is achieving a state of knowledgeability. The view of curriculum in institutions is 'to fill it up'. CoP theory view of curriculum is that learning has to follow construction of meaning, not precede it."

Jenny's blog post/learning artifact on questions to ask in designing a MOOC. Questions are useful for other learning enterprises and the MOOC image is delightful and amusing. Kudos to Jenny and her collaborators; very nicely done!

Interesting explanation of how the CCK MOOC would be evaluated for research purposes and used to inform and redesign future courses.