It is 1873. Something unique is about to happen.
A steam-train gathers speed in the background. Carriages on cobbled streets. In
a dark room children sleep. In another room, a man reads a
Three consecutive years is enough to establish a tradition, right? In what has
thereby become a tradition,Hybrid Pedagogy will “go dark” for about a month as
many of our readers, authors, and
In Submission. 22nd May 2015
In January 2014 I signed up to study on Dave Cormier’s Rhizomatic Learning
Course
[https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/]
, known often by those in a
A few years ago, Sean Michael Morris and I wrote, “Meaningful relationships are
as important in a class of three as they are in a class of 10,000.” In the rest
of
MOOCs and Critical Pedagogy are not obvious bedfellows. The hype around MOOCs has centered mostly on a brand of sage on the stage courseware at direct odds with Critical Pedagogy’s emphasis on learner agency.
The purpose of education is in large part linked to its standing as a social
science. Philosophers dating back to Socrates have linked education to a purpose
beyond the individual, one where accrual
In September 2013,Hybrid Pedagogypublished an e-book of graduate student essays
focused on student experiences in MOOCs — from EdX, Udacity, and other xMOOCs,
to improvisational MOOCs created by the students themselves using open
During the summer of 2013, George Veletsianos approached the editors of Hybrid
Pedagogy about publishing a collection of graduate student essays. The
collection focused on these students’ experiences in a variety of MOOCs
On October 14th, theCanvas Network
[https://www.canvas.net/courses/the-walking-dead]will launch a new massive open
online course inspired by the popular television seriesThe Walking Dead.
Instructure [http://www.instructure.com/]has
When MOOCs went viral in 2012, traditional small colleges reached an identity
crossroads, a midlife crisis where idealism and wisdom collide. Although the
main concerns of future viability have been present for years
It goes without saying that technology is changing education. Children’s brains
are being rewired, universities are being threatened with extinction, and we
will be in serious trouble if we ignore the transformative
Just over a year ago, my “learning” exploded. I was developing a hybrid Canadian
online delivery program for Chinese high school students. I was encouraged to
push the boundaries of K-12 online and
This article is an attempt to address a possible gap in Connectivist thinking,
and its expression in cMOOCs. It’s to do with the experience of technology
novices, and unconfident learners in cMOOC
“Building community doesn’t mean that learning happens.”
~ from an audience comment at InstructureCon 2013
Learning in a MOOC
Instruction does not equate to learning. This is the fundamental fly in the
ointment
