What's Next? After the MOOC Hype
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As the hype cycle around MOOCs drops, the question of what narratives will survive and thrive around MOOCs opens up. This keynote panel presentation for #MRI13 suggests there are two solitudes in the post-MOOC-hype discussion - one an empty picture of undeliverable promises for higher ed, and the other a loose affiliation of complicated and sometimes conflicting interests. The lot of us on the latter side need to learn to talk to each other, to the public, and to decision-makers.
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What's Next? After the MOOC Hype
- 1. The Hype that Ate Itself h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8028605773/
- 2. …but what has it left us?
- 3. The system of higher ed is in shift
- 4. Two Solitudes Media Discourse • • • • • Disruption Replacement Transformation Tsunami Free Practitioners’ Discourse • • • • • Connection Pedagogy Hybrid options Institution-specific Fit to purpose
- 5. “we have a lousy product”
- 7. 1. The ‘education is broken’ refrain
- 8. 2. A consensus that massive student debt is not tenable
- 9. 3. A recognition that education as a system CAN be unbundled …and may need to rebundle in new, unfamiliar ways
- 10. 4. A discourse of solutions and delivery
- 11. 5. A decline in public funding
- 12. 6. Openness to online
- 13. Media discourse around MOOCs is not equipped to actually grapple with ANY of these issues
- 15. But unicorns do not die.
- 16. MOOCs embody digital practices Harness & contribute to knowledge abundance Are participatory Are networked Are distributed Generate knowledge & connections that extend beyond course Share the processes of knowledge work, not just the products
- 17. Established power interests & marketization h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/midgro22/6299926854
- 18. “When colleges and universities become a market, there is no incentive to teach what customer would rather not know. When colleges are in the business of making customers comfortable, we are all poorer for it.” - T. MacMillan Cottom, Slate, Dec 2013
- 20. Behind door #2…& #3 & #4 h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/wiccked/133164205
- 21. What counts as education? Who is it for? Who is it meant to benefit? What are its goals?
- 22. We need to have these conversations in public
- 23. What’s your vision? Thank you. @bonstewart