A Critique of the Proposed National Education Policy Reform
MOOC - Invent Vs Innovate
1.
2. Challenge:
Level 1: Using ’4′ straight lines, connect all nine dots without breaking the line (i.e.
lifting your pen off the paper).
Level 2: Now using only ’3′ Lines , connect all nine dots without breaking the line. (Try to
think Out of the Box).
3. Challenge:
Level 1: Using ’4′ straight lines, connect all nine dots without breaking the line (i.e.
lifting your pen off the paper).
Level 2: Now using only ’3′ Lines , connect all nine dots without breaking the line. (Try to
think Out of the Box).
8. • Students into teachers
• Homework into Classwork
• Classwork into learning by self or
network, guided or unguided
• Hallways and Social spaces into
Classrooms
• Closed curriculum to open
• Degrees to badges
• Fixed learning periods to flexible
learning time, anywhere
• Fellow students into collaborators
10. What these are doing is thinking inside
the box…
Sage on the Stage
Taking elements
Content is King
an instructional process,
led principally by a teacher,
Under an institution,
That operates as a closed factory like system
…and
Process Based Changing around the elements or sequences
To create variations
…and
Hyping it as the next BIG thing
Factory Mode
19. Biggest insights
Rather than attempting to reduce a system, analytically, as the sum of its parts; look
at the system as a whole.
E.g. Breaking a clock down into its parts, analyzing the parts can give us an
understanding of how the clock works
But can we understand cities from houses and
roads, human bodies from organs and bones?
Or can we understand learning from analyzing
curriculum and experts?
20. Biggest insights
Rather than attempting to design a predictable system of education, can we instead
design for a system that understands the complexity?
Instead of saying curriculum + content + teaching
technique + student profiling + degree =
education, can we instead design ecologies
that lead to outcomes commonly ascribed to a
good education?
25. MOOCs are an invention.
A new way of thinking.
Incomparable.
26. A MOOC
Is an open, autonomous, networked and distributed space for sense-making
Is a space where teachers and learners re-invent their roles
To teach is to Model and Demonstrate
To learn is to Practice and Reflect
Content is no longer king; the network is
Learning is more a dance of conversation than a linearly predictable path
27. Contrary to false beliefs propagated by Coursera, EdX and
the rest of the xMOOCs
MOOCs are nascent
They face many intellectual and logistic challenges in implementation
They are culturally unique
They are an anathema to closed loop structures
They do not have developed supporting technology
Mobile Phone equipped to handle videoNo domain constraintStory:Videos by experts talking about an important Exam Prep Area accessible anywhere and in a relevant mannersharable with networkExperts will create the video – Camera, Internet site like Blip.TV, Site capable of taking multiple inputs (tablet, whiteboard, other tools)Network of people – popularity reasons, ranking/rating/recommendationPossible problems:People won’t author without incentive or motivation; very small fraction are self-motivatedPeople skillsTherefore, how can we build HITS, thereby deriving a business model where people get paid.Incentivize with freebies, coupons, competitions and awards, Linden Dollars? – eHow/DemandMediaeHow important bit – leverage existing brand, invest in pushing people to the platform, pushing in the minimal content required to get people hookedOptionsBuild it, larger social cause (CSR), academic focus
