tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688749700610571550.post5243053807486710137..comments2022-12-12T03:00:07.288-08:00Comments on The Edtech Curmudgeon: The MOOC is Dead, Long Live the MOOCambermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425276052810373738noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688749700610571550.post-44268308766392406472013-12-09T06:10:06.293-08:002013-12-09T06:10:06.293-08:00Thanks for this, Michael. It seems that the democr...Thanks for this, Michael. It seems that the democritization of education that technology offers means that these tools aren't really going to fade away (maybe "M" will come to stand for "moderately" or "minimally"). So, this is a great opportunity to evaluate... Since you mention scalability, the thing that marketers must love about MOOCs, I wonder what you think of Joshua Kim's comments? He writes "authentic learning does not scale". I’m definitely in the camp that thinks the non-rock-star-faculty at small schools have important lessons to offer their students (and to the world!). But I wonder whether if, by their very nature, those lessons cannot be delivered to 10,000 people at once. On the other hand, Gandhi taught the whole world that nonviolence is the only answer, but even in that case there was a problem with the persistence of the lesson in the students’ consciousness. So perhaps MOOCs will always be there to teach us the details of the next Autocad update, but perhaps they *can’t* be the teacher that changes our lives?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com