V, you may not like the way the LMS is used, but that is the problem of the designer, not the system. At least to a certain extent.
Re your connent on LMSs: I'm not convinced yet: an LMS can provide some useful functionality to support mOOC or MOOCs. My view is pragmatic. Free range based MOOCs often just loose the plot for many individuals who have signed up. In my experience. I bet Nicky Davis has got something to do with the current CU mOOC I was asking about. In which case I will be interested to see what nice little tweaks emerge. I'm just sad students don't get to take a field trip to a singe CU MOOC platform and do the whole thing there (which would be easier, simpler etc for staff and participants). Philosophically i don't like the idea of a class system of two platforms But i am open I'm assuming there are hidden official compliance barriers that mean Wayne needs another system. Hence the pilot. Bring it on. Derek. Derek Chirnside http://lits.gen.nz - +64 21 511 303 Sent from mobile which may (or may not) explain typos and non sequiturs. On 17/07/2013, at 7:04 AM, Vtaylor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- -- 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.
