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Comment on My mini-ethnography about a MOOC by hwalker

Comment on My mini-ethnography about a MOOC by hwalker

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Matthew’s netnography: https://www.thinglink.com/scene/891540343860756482#

Matthew: what a great idea to use Thinglink and the airport metaphor is an interesting one. As Daniel has already noted, you’ve done a brilliant job with the medium. I’m struck that you felt that MOOCs were only the start of a learning journey and not the heady flight itself; is this a comment on the superficiality of the learning which can happen within a MOOC environment? Or something else?

Thanks for sharing your work and your experience of what sort of confrontations can happen within an online community.

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Comment on My micro netnography by hwalker

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Eli, what a brilliant use of Spark: I really like how we ‘zoom in’ as we progress through your write up. As Helen has commented, (https://twitter.com/lemurph/status/836823636761849858), comparing your RL experience with your xMOOC one is a great idea.

Your findings suggest that the peer review process in the xMOOC is superficial, offering a gesture towards community interaction and support without having the structures (such as a guiding teacher presence) to deliver meaningful and helpful outcomes.

This MOOC adoption of an offline practice (which you demonstrate works at a small scale) into the online delivery of a massive course, without consideration as to whether it is appropriate, reminded me of Tony Bates’ warning which is cited at the end of Baggaley’s article: ‘It was as if 45 years of work was for nothing. All the research and study I and many others had done on what makes for successful learning online were totally ignored, with truly disastrous consequences in terms of effective learning for the vast majority of participants who took MOOCs from the Ivy League universities.’

Thanks for sharing your experiences in such a clear and engaging way Eli.

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Comment on Zygmunt Bauman’s notion of ‘cloakroom communities’ (https://t.co/l7idISu5pZ 2nd ZB comment down) – can MOOCs ever be more than that? #mscedc by hwalker

Comment on Zygmunt Bauman’s notion of ‘cloakroom communities’ (https://t.co/l7idISu5pZ 2nd ZB comment down) – can MOOCs ever be more than that? #mscedc by hwalker

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This is a really interesting analogy, Matthew and chimes with Jeremy’s observation in the tutorial that MOOC ‘communities’ are perhaps defined more by a shared purpose – by things they are expected to ‘do’ as members of that community – than by any strong social bonds.

Zygmunt Bauman’s notion of ‘cloakroom communities’ (https://t.co/l7idISu5pZ 2nd ZB comment down) – can MOOCs ever be more than that? #mscedc

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Comment on Visual Artefact #mscedc by hwalker

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This is a brilliantly thought-provoking image Linzi. As Helen and Jeremy note, the conversation it has provoked is fascinating. For me, I saw the image as a (digital?) womb too, but with an adult inside, suggesting that our entrapment within technology removes our innocence. The body looks pained and trying to protect herself from the cables which surround her. The heartbeat suggests heightened tension too: an inability to escape?

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Comment on Visual Artefact – The network of humans by hwalker

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https://spark.adobe.com/video/Sv7Cbgpt7ypFz

Like you, I spent much of this week dithering: your dithering has paid off: this is great! I really liked the last message about technology having the power to change evolution and the responsibility that brings. I echo Cathy’s comments on the high production quality here too!

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Comment on Digital artefact: Post-human classroom by hwalker

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I’d forgotten about Thinglink. A great tool and perfect for this.

This is a really thought-provoking artefact Chenée. I particularly like the question you pose about whether cyborgs can transcend the binaries (a brilliant image to illustrate that too!)

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Comment on Watching https://t.co/wXl8P9SUOO the key = ‘correctly’ (2:01 mins in). But what does it mean/look like? Cf. https://t.co/BgN7Z5Nlka #mscedc by hwalker

Comment on Watching https://t.co/wXl8P9SUOO the key = ‘correctly’ (2:01 mins in). But what does it mean/look like? Cf. https://t.co/BgN7Z5Nlka #mscedc by hwalker

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I was on a stand demonstrating O365 at BETT…it was a long week.

The conversations I had with teachers and with other exhibitors about technology, teaching and learning reflected exactly the instrumentalist views which you and James highlight. I read the Bayne paper on the way to the show and this heightened my awareness of the over-riding rhetoric present during the show, that technology is ‘in service’ to learning; it is a ‘tool’ which will ‘improve outcomes’ and ‘engage learners’.

I didn’t get to listen to any of the talks (I missed Ken Robinson(!)), so I’m not sure if a more nuanced position was offered by the speakers in the BETT arena. I fear it probably wasn’t. Also, based on my visits to numerous schools over the years, I fear that the assumptions and beliefs expressed about technology are echoed, at scale, in the wider education community.

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