[Open-education] Friday Chat: Personal experiences of MOOCs

Sat Sep 13 04:24:02 UTC 2014

Hello Marieke,

I am Silvia, from Uruguay. I am taking this course too. It's really awsome!

I have finished succesfully only one MOOC but started other 3. Of course I
think the main reasons for not finishing rhem was time and real interest,
but i think there were other important factors like the quality of the
resources, the ease of use of the platform and the resources, the clarity
of the syllabus, the possibility of having resources in more than one
language.

I have never really connected to the community, so I expect that´s
something new to this course.

Kind regards,

Silvia

El 12/09/2014, a las 06:10, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> escribió:

So sort of a Friday chat thing...

I started Stanford's Open Knowledge MOOC last week (bit of an intro to it
from me here
<https://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/stanfords-open-knowledge-mooc/>).
Anyone else doing it? I'm hoping some interesting questions come out of it
providing I can apply myself to do the course. [For example I learned
yesterday that more people own a mobile device than a toothbrush -
important stuff!!] It's my second MOOC and I completed my first one (ioe2012
<https://remoteworker.wordpress.com/category/ioe12/>), but I had more spare
time then...

Anyway, I was interested in people's personal experiences of MOOCs. Do we
practice what we preach? Or are MOOCs just something we deliver for other
people? How do you use MOOCs to support what you do? Have people had
positive experiences connecting with communities in MOOCs? What about
hybrid approaches - has anyone participated in a MOOC and at the same time
been involved in a physical community supporting it? Are there people
delivering MOOCs who fundamentally disagree with them as a form of open
education?

Also if you have a topic for discussion remember to shout it out or add it
to the etherpad <https://pad.okfn.org/p/Open_Education_Working_Friday_Chats>
.

Marieke

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