{"id":38937,"date":"2013-04-10T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=38937"},"modified":"2013-04-10T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T18:39:08","slug":"my-reflections-on-moocs-of-hazard-a-well-thought-out-balanced-article-by-andrew-delbanco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/04\/10\/my-reflections-on-moocs-of-hazard-a-well-thought-out-balanced-article-by-andrew-delbanco\/","title":{"rendered":"My reflections on &#8220;MOOCs of Hazard&#8221; &#8211; a well-thought out, balanced article by Andrew Delbanco"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>From DSC: Below are my <\/em><em>reflections on <\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/112731\/moocs-will-online-education-ruin-university-experience\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MOOCs of Hazard<\/strong><\/a> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212; from newrepublic.com by Andrew Delbanco &#8212; <em>who asks:\u00a0<\/em> Will online education dampen the college experience? Yes. Will it be worth it? Well&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nWhile I&#8217;m not sure that I agree with the idea that online education will dampen the college experience &#8212; and while I could point to some amazing capabilities that online education brings to the table in terms of true global exchanges &#8212; I&#8217;ll instead focus my comments on the following items:<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>1) Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are recent <em>experiments<\/em> &#8212; ones that will continue to change\/morph into something else.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>They are half-baked at best, but they should not be taken lightly.<\/em> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Disrupting-Class-Expanded-Disruptive-Innovation\/dp\/0071749101\">Christensen, Horn, Johnson<\/a> are spot on with their theories of disruption here, especially as they relate to innovations occurring within the virtual\/digital realm.\u00a0 For example, the technologies behind IBM&#8217;s Watson could be mixed into the list of ingredients that will be used to develop MOOCs in the future.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">It would be a very powerful, effective MOOC indeed if you could get the following parties\/functionalities to the table:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>IBM &#8212; to provide Watson like auto-curation\/filtering capabilities, artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, as well as data mining\/learning analytics expertise, joined by<\/li>\n<li>Several highly-creative firms from the film\/media\/novel\/storytelling industry, who would be further joined by<\/li>\n<li>Experts from Human Computer Interaction (HCI)\/user interface\/user experience design teams, who would be further joined by<\/li>\n<li>Programmers and interaction specialists from educational gaming endeavors (and from those who can design simulations), joined by<\/li>\n<li>Instructional designers, joined by<\/li>\n<li>The appropriate Subject Matter Experts who can be reached by the students as necessary, joined by<\/li>\n<li>Those skilled in research and library services, joined by<\/li>\n<li>Legal experts to assist with copyright issues, joined by<\/li>\n<li>Other specialists in mobile learning,\u00a0 3D, web development, database administration, animation, graphic design, musicians, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It won&#8217;t be long before this type of powerful team gets pulled together &#8212; from some organizations(s) with deep pockets &#8212; and the content is interacted with and presented to us within our living rooms via connected\/Smart TVs and via second screen devices\/applications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>2) The benefits of MOOCs<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>For colleges\/universities:\n<ul>\n<li>MOOCs offer some serious marketing horsepower (rather than sound pedagogical tools, at this point in time at least)<\/li>\n<li>They are forcing higher ed to become much more innovative<\/li>\n<li>They provide great opportunities to build one&#8217;s personalized learning networks, as they bring forth those colleagues who are interested in topic A, B, or C<\/li>\n<li>They move us closer to team-based content creation and delivery<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>For students:\n<ul>\n<li>They offer a much less expensive option to go exploring disciplines for themselves&#8230;to see if they enjoy (and\/or are gifted in) topic A, B or C<\/li>\n<li>They provide great opportunities to build one&#8217;s personalized learning networks, as they bring forth those colleagues who are interested in topic A, B, or C<\/li>\n<li>They provide a chance to see what it&#8217;s like to learn about something in a digital\/virtual manner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">3)\u00a0 The drawbacks of MOOCs:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>MOOCs are not nearly the same thing as what has come to be known as &#8220;online learning&#8221; &#8212; at least in the higher ed industry. MOOCs do not yet offer what more &#8220;traditional&#8221; (can I say that?) online learning provides: Far more support and pedagogical\/instructional design, instructor presence and dialog, student academic support services, advising, more student-to-student and student-to-faculty interaction, etc.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>MOOCs are like drinking from a firehose &#8212; there are too many blogs\/RSS feeds, twitter feeds, websites, and other resources to review.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">4) It would be wise for all of us to be involved with such experiments and have at least a subset of one&#8217;s college or university become much more nimble\/responsive.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iasc-culture.org\/THR\/THR_article_2013_Spring_Interview_Delbanco.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Delbanco&#8217;s interview in <em>The Hedgehog Review<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Below are my reflections on MOOCs of Hazard &#8212; from newrepublic.com by Andrew Delbanco &#8212; who asks:\u00a0 Will online education dampen the college experience? Yes. Will it be worth it? Well&#8230; . While I&#8217;m not sure that I agree with the idea that online education will dampen the college experience &#8212; and while 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