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Why Have Students Been Left Out Of The MOOC Discussion? - 0 views
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One of Cathy Davidson's big things is giving students a bigger role in shaping the direction of a course. So it's not surprising that she would point out how most MOOCs don't include any structures for doing so. But such things *do* happen, as I noted in my post here: http://derekbruff.org/?p=2295.
I was thinking we would have to build a tool to provide this kind of crowdsourcing functionality, but perhaps Diigo will do the trick. Diigo is designed to share bookmarks (links), but one can also contribute a "topic" to a group, which is what I'm doing now. And Diigo provides the tag searching ability I described above, along with the ability for users to comment on each other's post. There's also a "like" button, but it doesn't look like one can use that to sort search results. Diigo groups also have RSS feeds, so if we wanted to pipe data out of Diigo into some other tool, we would have some options.
The downside is that Diigo provides a lot of functionality we don't need, which could be confusing for MOOC participants who are new to Diigo. We'd have to provide very specific instructions.