{"id":255,"date":"2013-02-08T08:53:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T13:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elearningpod.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2013-02-08T08:53:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T13:53:26","slug":"02-08-13-thoughts-on-the-online-teaching-mooc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"02.08.13 Thoughts on the &#8220;Online Teaching&#8221; MOOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been analyzing a number of MOOC&#8217;s and\u00c2\u00a0enrolled in the &#8220;Fundamentals of Online Teaching&#8221; MOOC.\u00c2\u00a0It was a bit of a train wreck. Debbie Morrison outlines a good analysis of some of the problems in &#8220;The MOOC Honeymoon is Over: Three Takeaways from the Coursera Calamity&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/05\/the-mooc-honeymoon-is-over-three-takeaways-from-the-coursera-calamity\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/05\/the-mooc-honeymoon-is-over-three-takeaways-from-the-coursera-calamity\/<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p>I particularly agree with her second point that &#8220;<strong> Sound instructional design is the key to supporting self-directed learning experiences.<\/strong>&#8221; Yes. Good references and a link to Steven Downes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/presentation\/290\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Facilitating a Massive Open Online Course<\/em> <\/a>(2012).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been analyzing a number of MOOC&#8217;s and\u00c2\u00a0enrolled in the &#8220;Fundamentals of Online Teaching&#8221; MOOC.\u00c2\u00a0It was a bit of a train wreck. Debbie Morrison outlines a good analysis of some of the problems in &#8220;The MOOC Honeymoon is Over: Three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/?p=255\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,26,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning-development-for-teachers-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-online-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}