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Subversion of MOOCs
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Thoughts about gMOOCs »
Thoughts about gMOOCs
Thoughts about gMOOCs☜gMOOC = Game-Based MOOC.Research by Jack Park and Sherry Jones☜F1CEB7
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Subversion of MOOCs
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gMOOC as possible solution to the subversion of MOOCs »
gMOOC as possible solution to the subversion of MOOCs
gMOOC as possible solution to the subversion of MOOCs☜☜59C6EF
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Mooc creators criticise courses’ lack of creativity
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Chris Parr - Times Higher Education
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2013 October, 17
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David Price
2:45 PM 8 November 2013 GMT
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http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/mooc-creators-criticise-courses-lack-of-creativity/2008180.article
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Five years down the line, the term has become commonplace. Hundreds of universities have developed Moocs, and the organisations that have established platforms to host them – such as Coursera, edX and Udacity in the US and FutureLearn in the UK – have become increasingly well known. However, Downes fears that modern Moocs are placing less emphasis on providing an “interactive and dynamic” approach to learning (such as he championed with his 2008 course) and more on “static and passive” education.
Moocs as they were originally conceived…were the locus of learning activities and interaction, but as deployed by commercial providers they resemble television shows or digital textbooks with – at best – an online quiz component,” he argues. Siemens believes that attitudes towards Moocs are in a period of flux and that criticism is mounting because of what he calls the “biggest failing of the big Mooc providers”: they are simply repackaging what is already known rather than encouraging creativity and innovation.
“There has been a growing backlash against Moocs over the past year. If 2012 was the ‘Year of the Mooc’, 2013 is shaping up as the ‘Year of the anti-Mooc’,” he says.
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