{"id":1379,"date":"2013-07-30T14:55:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T21:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2014-01-10T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T18:56:08","slug":"reclaiming-the-mooc-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/1379","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming the MOOC name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/cogdogblog.com\/tag\/moocmocking\/\">poo-pooing of MOOCs<\/a>. A lot of \u201cwe-are-not-going-to-get-on-this-bandwagon\u201d talk. A lot of \u201cwe don\u2019t want no stinking MOOCs.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BFv6Hy5CIAALRgM.jpg:large\" width=\"400\" height=\"281\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: Audrey Watters (I think)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I can only assume that what people are reacting to is the new breed of xMOOCs from the Courseras and Udacities (that&#8217;s funny, huh?) of the world. These are MOOCs that strive to serve hundreds of thousands of learners; that have weak facilitation, little peer interaction, and not much collaboration; that focus on analytics and big data and have business models that are troubling; that are often neither open, nor transparent.<\/p>\n<p>But this isn\u2019t what MOOCs are about to me. To me, they should be open, transparent, connected, and collaborative. That was the vision of the <a href=\"http:\/\/davecormier.com\">original idea of MOOCs<\/a>, the cMOOCs as they are now called.<\/p>\n<p>So when will we reclaim the MOOC name for this kind of collaboration that we value? Let\u2019s not let the corporate MOOC armies take this term and co-opt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard a lot of poo-pooing of MOOCs. A lot of \u201cwe-are-not-going-to-get-on-this-bandwagon\u201d talk. A lot of \u201cwe don\u2019t want no stinking MOOCs.\u201d I can only assume that what people are reacting to is the new breed of xMOOCs from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[118,128],"tags":[159,108],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clmooc","category-dlmooc-2","tag-clmooc","tag-moocs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-mf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}