Edinburgh, Coursera, and Two Kinds of MOOCs I was thrilled to see my former university, the University of Edinburgh join Coursera as announced yesterday and to see at least one …
Open Learning, Labor Surplus, and (Complex) Microtasking
It will become painfully obvious rather quickly here that I am most certainly not an economist, although I will throw out economic terms with a callous disregard for their accuracy …
MOOC Theory: Engagement with mobile learners in developing regions
John Traxler posed two questions to Twitter the other day that have had me thinking for a bit on the appropriateness of MOOCs as a vehicle for (learning about) mobile …
MobiMOOC Week 3: ICT4D Activities, Presentations, Feedback
In keeping with the intoxicating open and democratic spirit in which Inge de Waard has crafted the MobiMOOC course this year (polling on topics, etc.), I have decided to try …
Emotive Vocabulary in MOOCs and Participant Retention: A New Article and Getting Translated in China
I thought I might for a second try to throw the whole post into that title. Either way, two things to mention in this post. The first, a new publication. …
Participatory design for MobiMOOC: call for participation
In the spirit of open learning and MOOCs, with all their emphasis on openness, collaboration, even transparency, it seems natural enough to extend that thought of openness all the way …
MOOC Learning Design: What does participatory design look like in open learning?
Constructivist is what constructivist explores I am in the process of constructing a week of activities on ICT4D (and Mobile for Development-M4d) for the next installment of the MobiMOOC scheduled …