As I recall, the daily email updates for CCK?? that Stephen Downes produced with RSShopper included Moodle posts. That doesn't help a lot in this case as the LMS is closed (it was open access in CCK).
Are you required to have the enrolled student discussions be inside a closed LMS? How about have all discussions open access for all participants. May not be the same as the course or even same Moodle installation. Worst case - your enrolled students have one "class" for the university portion, and another location (class / login) for the associated open discussions. We ran into this - couldn't have non-students have accounts to participate in open discussions, even though registered students would benefit, and the anticipated discussion volume was small. MOOCs (and mOOCs) are better without the structure of an LMS, IMHO. The Stanford courses are so "business as usual" - instructor-directed, restricted by the format, regimented by "revealing" information with enforced deadlines and cutoffs. Nothing like the refreshing "it is up to you" personal learning networks / environments encouraged and supported by the original (and real) MOOCs of Downes, et al. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
