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Chris Swift

Online courses need human element to educate - 9 views

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  • Chris Swift on 18 Jan 13
     
    "..the best of MOOCs should be able to bring together ideal, heterogeneous groupings of students based on their profiles and past performance, and also create ample opportunities for them to engage with one another in the spirit of learning. Perhaps this spirit of mutual aid is what built the Internet in the first place. Now that this massive collaborative learning project has succeeded, it would be a shame if we used it to take the humanity out of learning altogether."
Kelcy A

Mourning and Public-ness by danah boyd - 0 views

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  • Kelcy A on 03 Feb 13
     
    Speaks to an important element of online culture - how much do you share and where is it safe to share when you need to interact with the network of digital friends that you have formed online
Rick Bartlett

An Affinity for Asynchronous Learning - Hybrid Pedagogy - 1 views

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shared by Rick Bartlett on 05 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • is the belief (as Kolowich suggests) that increasing the “human” element of an online course is best done by either showing the face/voice of the teacher
  • Asynchronous communication links with my local time, my skills, my preferences, my interests, my agenda. So it is focuses on ME. Synchronous communication links with teachers and other learners, it is spontaneous and lets you know how is your GROUP.”
  • In our survey, convenience was one of the main reasons people preferred asynchronous learning
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  • The most frequently cited pedagogical reason in our survey for preferring asynchronous communication was that it promoted better reflection
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