E-learning and Digital Cultures 2013

A group interested on the liberation of information (it goes from free e-learning to governmental transparency)

A critique of Clay Shirky's post " Napster, Udacity and the Academy" shared earlier to the group by Ary Aranguiz http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/11/napster-udacity-and-the-academy/

The internet is not amazing, rather it "destroys political discourse, economic stability, the dignity of personhood and leads to "social catastrophe.". What do you think?

Thanks for this reference - very thoughtful and thought-provoking. Don't quite know what to 'do' with the information... a simple rubric could be to use the web the same way that Carl Rogers advises us to teach - with unconditional positive regard, congruence and empathy. Which is okay when you are still dealing with people - it gets so much complicated when we must perforce deal with or through impersonal monetised systems like Google or FaceBook.

This one has some courses on social sciences supported by the United Nations. They are complete undergraduate degrees online! 

Thanks Chris - will keep an eye on this, Sandra (NB: because we built a Diigo group for our website, www.londonmet.ac.uk/studyhub, when I post here my moniker comes up as Study Hub.)

I like this list as it is organised by task. Now I want to see a list with an example of where each one has been used in class!

I didn't think all of these were useful, and a lot were very self serving which I don't believe is in the right spirit of a MOOC. 20 & 27 were my favourite because a MOOC can help you solve a problem with someone from a totally different background. That's refreshing. What were your favourites from the list?

I think EDCMOOC has done a lot of these things already. 6 & 7 are most interesting for me. I totally agree with 7,8 & 9, and I think if we are smart about how we do this, we can alleviate point 6

Personally, I would add as a Benefit, "It's online, so you can participate whenever you want". And I would also add the same thing as an Issue! At least in a real class the lecture or class begin and end at a set time. I find it harder to time manage when it's just me. How about you?

"The best thing to come out of the MOOC phenomenon is that people are talking about teaching, instructional strategies, and assessment."