PBS report on MOOCs with Spencer Michaels. 11 minutes.
Coursea, Udacity, edX, Kahn Academy. Balanced report. Where are the peers? Meeting on their own in a local bar.
The reporter says getting colleges to accept online learning for credit is a big problem. I disagree. Once employers and regulators accept online portfolios of learning experiences, degrees will cease to be important outside of academia.
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These types of MOOCs are like wolves in sheep’s clothing. They are not MOOCs in the connectivist sense. This is the latest bandwagon that traditional universities are using as a way to get their classes online. They are not open in the connectivist sense. These are classes with the same type of assignments and constraints that their Blackboard-based cousins have. Connectivist MOOCs are a messy business that creates a community that lives beyond the semester. Let’s start calling them xMOOCs, not cMOOCs to make sure we differentiate them appropriately.