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Criticism of the scramble by universities into moocworld and the rhetoric about them being the saviour of HE. Find some of the argument linking a bit weak.

Martin Weller bemoans the "It's broken" rhetoric

Excellent piece on the meta-rhetoric surrounding the demise of (Thrun's) Moocs.

Article by Audrey decrying the description of education as industrial and suggesting that there is a business imperative for this rhetoric.

In this article I want to reflect on the rhetoric of 'Web 2.0' and its potential versus actual impact. I want to suggest that we need to do more than look at how social networking technologies are being used generally as an indicator of their potential impact on education, arguing instead that we need to rethink what are the fundamental characteristics of learning and then see how social networking can be harnessed to maximise these characteristics to best effect. I will further argue that the current complexity of the digital environment requires us to develop 'schema' or approaches to thinking about how we can best harness the benefits these new technologies confer.

PhD Thesis

Chris Messina has a go at Operas rhetoric over Unite although sees some hidden gems in Activity Streaming.