Tomorrow is the official start of the Videogames and Learning Coursera MOOC developed by Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler at University of Wisconsin Madison. In this post I compare the pros and cons of Coursera's more expository "xMOOC" format with the connectivist "cMOOC" format advanced by Siemans and Downes and show how the the more modest "big" format of IU's Big Open Online Course is turning out to be a useful interim context for design-based research of hybrid formats for future massive courses that can exploit the advantages of these very different formats while minimizing the negatives.
Showing posts with label DOCCs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DOCCs. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Monday, September 2, 2013
On MOOCs, BOOCs, and DOCCs: Innovation in Open Courses
This post examines the features of Anne Balsamo's DOCC (distributed open collaborative course) in light of current issues in open courses. This extended post discusses the pros and cons of a distributed approach to curriculum in light of the BOOC (big open online course) on educational assessment that Indiana University is offering in Fall 2013
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