{"id":1542,"date":"2014-05-02T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T16:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2014-05-02T09:08:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T16:08:50","slug":"genius-hour-as-mooc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/1542","title":{"rendered":"Genius Hour as MOOC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few of us <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalis.nwp.org\/site-blog\/thinking-about-youth-participation-cmoocs\/6029\">have been talking about the idea<\/a> of fostering <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/AumWMPtyPO8\">cross-generational participation in cMOOCs<\/a> lately, and as I think about this my mind keeps coming back to the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geniushour.com\/\">Genius Hour<\/a> as a MOOC.<\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar, the idea of Genius Hour (also sometimes called Google 20% time) is to give students some dedicated time to pursue their own passions. Whenever I think about Genius Hour, I think &#8220;Why don&#8217;t we have this for teachers too?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So how about a MOOC where people of all ages are encouraged to identify and pursue a topic they are passionate about? It could be an inquiry project, a maker project, or something else of their choosing.<\/p>\n<p>The advantages of doing this as a MOOC are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taking place over a fixed period of time bounds the project and makes it more approachable. (&#8220;course&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Having access to many others, including hopefully some with similar passions, allows collaboration. (&#8220;massive&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Being in an open space allows delightfully unexpected synergies to occur. (&#8220;open&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Participants could do this from anywhere. (&#8220;online&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a learner, I would delight in participating in something like this. In fact, my head is buzzing with things I might pursue in this way.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think? Does this idea have legs? Want to start something like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of us have been talking about the idea of fostering cross-generational participation in cMOOCs lately, and as I think about this my mind keeps coming back to the idea of Genius Hour as a MOOC. For those unfamiliar,<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[118],"tags":[159,133,108,48],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clmooc","tag-clmooc","tag-genius-hour","tag-moocs","tag-peer-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-oS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","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=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}