#OpenEd13 shows a lot of people building a lot of unique courses and putting them under the MOOC umbrella because it exists, it kind of fits, and it generates eyeballs.
I must mention that Jim Groom argued against this point in the Q&A, noting specifically via my use of MOOCseum that I gained population to the conference session not because I used the term MOOC but because I did what a good connectivist does: I networked and made personal connections in order to secure interest and show people the promise of the session.
I must mention that Jim Groom argued against this point in the Q&A, noting specifically via my use of MOOCseum that I gained population to the conference session not because I used the term MOOC but because I did what a good connectivist does: I networked and made personal connections in order to secure interest and show people the promise of the session.
Is the term MOOC lost? We will discuss further at Sloan’s International Conference on Online Learning, where I present on a history of the term from the perspectives of history, theory, and pedagogy.
Rolin Moe is an author, teacher and education consultant. He is a doctoral candidate in Learning Technologies at Pepperdine University, studying how educational technology affects political and cultural attitudes of education.This article first appeared on All MOOCs, All The Time.
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