Module 3 Post 2
Realizing I may need to extend my communication network beyond the periphery of my own college, I have decided to enroll in an online MOOC in Indigenous Education. I have found the following which was designed by UBC’s Dr. Jane Hare, whom I immediately recognized as an MET grad and generous deliverer of video Land Acknowledgement at the outset and on the home page of all of our ETEC courses on Canvas. The 6-week course based on the following topics:
Week 1: Reconciliation Through Education
Week 2: History of Indigenous Education
Week 3: Learning from Indigenous Worldviews
Week 4: Learning from Story
Week 5: Learning from the Land
Week 6: Engaging in Respectful Relations
The course is located here:
Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education | edX
A quick overview of the homepage renders it user friendly and reminds us it is a free course, although attaining a verified certificate is allegedly 50 USD. Credibility is built by displaying the number of course alumni (41,095 students enrolled and successfully graduated from this course at the time of this post.) As this is a cMOOC, it is built on a social constructivist framework that renders voices of participants essential in the knowledge construction and deconstruction.