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Terry Elliott

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  • Terry Elliott on 23 May 13
     
    A video splash playlist of summer makings and doings and reflectings and sharings.
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Education as Platform: The MOOC Experience and what we can do to make it better ~ Steph... - 2 views

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  • And I have some metaphors up here to help people grasp how they should understand this. Football. Following football. There must be some football fans here; I've heard it's popular. And there are teams all over the world. How many of you follow the South American leagues? What, nobody? Some of you may follow the European leagues, Manchester United, yeah? How many of you follow Australian football; have you been following what Brisbane's been doing lately? No! Well how can you be a football fan if you're not following all of these? Aren't you tearing out your hair? You just can't keep up? Of course not. You are a football fan by choosing those football games, those teams, those associations that are interesting to you. And you know that there are ten-year olds playing football in the back yard, but you don't feel compelled to go out and watch just because it's football. You learn to let it go.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 May 13
       
      Dropping out of a MOOC then says more about your affinities than it does about your character?
  • And he contrasted that with the social kind of course that we see in Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, or the MOOCs that George, Dave and I have put on, where the action of the course is predominately interaction with each other.
  • Dave Cormier, who might also be in the room - he's in the back doing his hallelujah wave - has done a number of really nice videos about what a MOOC is and how to be successful, and again, it's like I said before, success in a MOOC isn't just remembering content. Success is very much what you define success to be, and that sounds a little anti-intuitive. How can you get a job if success is what you define it to be? Then again, that comes back to the purpose of this in the first place. What is success in a MOOC? Dave defines five steps: - orient (figure out where stuff is), - declare (and what that means is, setting up a place for yourself, setting up an identity for yourself, even, a little but, using course tags to identify that part of your material that you're contributing as part of the course), - and then network (because once you set up your space and write some posts nothing happens; it's when you begin to connect with other people), - and as you network you begin to find people you have affinity with (not necessarily people who are the same as you, but people who you can talk to, people who have an interest in a subject that corresponds with your interests), - and then finally and most interestingly, find a purpose for the work that you are doing (why are you in this educational experience, where are you going to apply it).
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 May 13
       
      Here is a link to a png of the above: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dv6z5ufa5czcyqv/successful%20moocs.png Play?
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  • But what made these universities great was not the content (often it was wrong, you go back 50 or 100 years, what they were teaching was pure… wrong; we know a lot more now than we did then) but it was the exposure of the students to the minds of these great thinkers and how they thought and how they reasoned and how they inferred.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 May 13
       
      I agree and the process for making it increasingly less wrong is cooked into the institution. Universities didn't get to be a 1000 years old as an institution without having had corrective feedback and feedforward mechanisms.
  • Q. Do you think moderation is required as well?A. The problem with moderation is it's labour intensive. I'd rather define it structurally. Look at chess, right? Or look at football. This is what kills me, right? The entire nation of India knows how to play football - that would take a massive education project. And yet, they did it. I don't know how many people play chess, but again, you can imagine the entire nation learning how to play chess. Or learning how to speak a language. So, it can be done. But not with human mediation. So you need structural elements that serve in this way. Again it comes back to the social object thing. The purpose of the structural elements is not to shape the discussion or lead the discussion a certain way, but it's to offer this channel, this semantic-free interface between people, a structured interface, but meaning-free. That was a little awkwardly expressed, but you're nodding so I think you kind of got it.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 May 13
       
      The sentiment is to be yearned for--a structured interface, but meaning-free--but that is a chimera. Every tools has its handle or in most cases, its controlling metaphor. There ain't no such critter as a value free, frictionless conduit.
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