{"id":13181,"date":"2011-01-05T08:54:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=13181"},"modified":"2011-01-05T08:54:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T13:54:45","slug":"moocs-knowledge-and-the-digital-economy-a-research-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/05\/moocs-knowledge-and-the-digital-economy-a-research-project\/","title":{"rendered":"MOOCs, knowledge and the digital economy &#8211; a research project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davecormier.com\/edblog\/2010\/12\/20\/moocs-knowledge-and-the-digital-economy-a-research-project\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MOOCs, knowledge and the digital economy &#8211; a research projec<\/strong>t <\/a>&#8212; Dave Cormier<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sometime in June Sandy McAuley, Bonnie Stewart, George Siemens and I  decided to apply to SSHRC for funding for researching the place of MOOCs  in the digital economy. We did a little work creating videos to allow  people to understand what was going on in a MOOC and decide if it was  something they might want to do. We also did a huge write up that you might find interesting [first paragraph below]:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The MOOC Model for Digital Practice  responds to the \u201cBuilding Digital Skills for Tomorrow\u201d section of the  consultation paper Improving Canada\u2019s Digital Advantage: Strategies for  Sustainable Prosperity by synthesizing the current state of knowledge  about<strong> Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs).<\/strong> It argues that building and  sustaining prosperity through Canada\u2019s current digital strengths depends  on a digital ecosystem that embraces both infrastructure and the  collaborative social networks enabled by that infrastructure. Prosperity  in this context requires a citizenry with the knowledge, skills, and  attitudes necessary to turn these factors towards creating wealth. By  exploring the relationship of MOOCs to the digital economy in general  and their potential roles to prepare citizens for participation in that  digital economy in particular, it illustrates one particularly Canadian  model of how these needs may be addressed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOOCs, knowledge and the digital economy &#8211; a research project &#8212; Dave Cormier Sometime in June Sandy McAuley, Bonnie Stewart, George Siemens and I decided to apply to SSHRC for funding for researching the place of MOOCs in the digital economy. We did a little work creating videos to allow people to understand what was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,62,49],"tags":[453,601,593],"class_list":["post-13181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-online-learning","category-web-based-collaboration","tag-moocs","tag-online-learning","tag-web-based-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13182,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181\/revisions\/13182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}