La classe deve essere sufficientemente flessibile da consentire anche lo svolgimento di lavori di gruppo nei quali “l’insegnante non svolge interventi frontali ma assume il ruolo di facilitatore ed organizzatore delle attività, strutturando ambienti di apprendimento atti a favorire un clima positivo e la partecipazione ed il contributo di ciascuno studente in tutte le fasi del lavoro dalla pianificazione alla valutazione. Dovranno dunque essere pensati spazi per i lavori di gruppo, con arredi flessibili in modo tale da consentire configurazioni diverse coerentemente con lo svilupparsi e l’alternarsi delle diverse fasi dell’attività didattica. Un ambiente di questa natura deve essere in grado di essere sufficientemente flessibile da consentire, ad esempio, lo svolgimento di attività in gruppi di piccola o media composizione (ad es. in gruppi specialistici che lavorano, in parallelo, su argomenti affini), discussione e brainstorming (ad es. studenti e docente che si confrontano sulla soluzione di problemi, condividono le conoscenze pregresse, discutono su ipotesi di lavoro), esposizione/introduzione/sintesi a cura del docente, presentazione in plenaria di un elaborato a cura degli studenti, esercitazioni che coinvolgono tutta la classe ecc”.
Claude Almansi on 09 Jul 14"In a previous post, I commented on the Massive Teaching course at Coursera and that something odd was happening. Either Coursera deleted the prof from the course or the prof was running some type of experiment. It now appears to be primarily the latter. (...) 3. Criticism ranging from a poorly designed course to poor ethics has been directed to Paul-Olivier Dehaye. Most of it is unfair. There have been some calls for U of Zurich to discipline the prof. Like others, I've criticized his deception research and his silence since the course was shut down. Several days before the media coverage, Dehaye provided the following comments on his experiment: "MOOCs can be used to enhance privacy, or really destroy it," Dehaye wrote. "I want to fight scientifically for the idea, yet teach, and I have signed contracts, which no one asks me about…. I am in a bind. Who do I tell about my project? My students? But this idea of the #FacebookExperiment is in itself dangerous, very dangerous. People react to it and express more emotions, which can be further mined." The goal of his experiment, Dehaye wrote, was to "confuse everyone, including the university, [C]oursera, the Twitter world, as many journalists as I can, and the course participants. The goal being to attract publicity…. I want to show how [C]oursera tracks you." There it is. His intent was to draw attention to Coursera policies and practices around data. Congrats, Paul-Olivier. Mission accomplished. He is doing exactly what academics should do: perturb people to states of awareness. Hundreds, likely thousands, of faculty have taught MOOCs, often having to toe the line of terms and conditions set by an organization that doesn't share the ideals, community, and egalitarianism that define universities (you can include me in that list). The MOOC Mystery was about an academic doing what we expect and need academics to do. Unfortunately it was poorly executed and not properly communicated so th
