{"id":1496,"date":"2013-05-02T03:29:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T10:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2015-04-11T16:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T23:37:10","slug":"mooc-engagement-disengagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2013\/05\/02\/mooc-engagement-disengagement\/","title":{"rendered":"MOOC engagement and disengagement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently<\/a><\/span> I contrasted<\/span> ds106<\/a><\/span> with<\/span> a course in statistics from Udacity<\/a><\/span>, as part of my participation in a course on\u00a0Open Education from the Open University<\/a><\/span>. <\/span>I got very frustrated writing that post because I felt constrained by the script, by the instructions. It wasn’t that I had other things to say that didn’t fit the script; it was more that following the explicit instructions seemed to keep me from thinking of other things to say. I was busy saying what I was supposed to, and therefore didn’t leave myself mental space to consider much of anything else.<\/span><\/p>\n

Usually I only write blog posts when I have something I want to reflect on, to share with others, to get feedback about. It’s self-generated, and I care about what I’m doing. That hasn’t been the case for many of the posts I’ve done for the Open Education course, and it has just felt far too forced and unmeaningful.<\/span><\/p>\n

I decided to stop.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s IT! Just wrote most boring blog post ever b\/c following script. Never again. Need to cleanse with some #ds106<\/a> #dailycreate<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Christina Hendricks (@clhendricksbc) April 25, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n