MOOC pedagogy: the challenges of developing for Coursera | ALT Online Newsletter - 0 views
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jim pettiward on 07 Apr 13"All of these MOOC platforms appear to justify their status by promoting curricula that are equivalent to campus-based courses, with a strong focus on content delivery and an emphasis on the rigor and formality of their assessment methods. However, some of the most interesting and innovative practices in online education have emerged by challenging these very ideas; loosening institutional control of learning outcomes and assessment criteria, shifting from a focus on content delivery to a foregrounding of process, community and learning networks, and working with more exploratory assessment methods - digital and multimodal assignments, peer assessment and group assignments, for example."