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week 13: MOOCS – How do we perceive knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge?

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Educational analysts (Bates; Watters) demonstrate that MOOCs development is both a promising movement towards democratizing education and a critically unsustainable technological fad played by the ivy league universities. Having a unified platform for MOOCs makes very different courses look the same to the detriment of learning experience. What do you think about the perspectives of MOOC? I believe that the notion of the MOOC being a “disruptive innovation” is interesting, as I believe any innovation to any field (education or otherwise) has the potential to be disruptive. Changing the trajectory…read more

Aug.11
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week 12: educational multimedia – trends and the future development

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In his critique of technological solutionism Evgeny Morozov (Chapter 6), distinguishes the restrictive/prohibitive technological design solutions and those which instead offer a broader range of choices. 1. What examples of the restrictive and the choice broadening types of solutions you know from your professional and learning experiences, or have encountered while working with educational technologies? An example that I can speak to in terms of educational technology is the restrictiveness of some instructors with the use of cellphones in class versus those instructors who are lenient and even promote this…read more

Aug.09
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