the mooc moment: experiments in scale and access in higher education
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The MOOC Moment: Experiments in Scale and
Access in Higher Education Elizabeth Losh, UC San Diego
@lizlosh on Twitter [email protected]
Theoretical Touchstones • Technology is material (although it is often
presented as "virtual”) • Technology involves embodiment (although it is
often presented as disembodied) • Technology solicits affect (although it is often
presented as highly rational) • Technology requires labor (although it is often
presented as labor-saving) • Technology is situated in particular contexts
(although it is often presented as universal) • Technology promotes particular political values
(although it is often presented as neutral) • Technology requires access to tacit knowledge
practices (although it is often presented as transparent)
Prototyping at the Long Table Labor Saving Devices & Life Support Systems
Feminist DH at DHSI STS, HCI, and Media Theory
1. How do we define learning?
What They Learn in College
2. What kinds of cheating might you want to teach?
• Finding shortcuts • Pursuing advantage • Gaming the system • Locating vulnerabilities • Crowdsourcing • Masking identity • Questioning loyalty
The War on Learning
3. How can conflicts between formal and informal learning be productive?
• Devices • Resources • Boundary objects • Spaces • Publics • Participants • Learning styles
On Camera: The Baked Professor Makes His Debut
4.What can be learned from failure?
• (Not grit, not resilience, not pulling up by bootstraps)
• Reparative work • Broken systems • Queer arts • Alternative histories
From Reality TV to the Research University
The Rhetoric of the Open Courseware Movement
Julia
8. The University as a Design Problem
Sritama
FemTechNet.org
Trust Challenge
SHARED RESOURCES that encourage
DISTRIBUTED DIALOGUE
Signature Video Dialogues around key themes
LABOR SEXUALITIES RACE DIFFERENCE BODIES MACHINE
SYSTEM: Narrative PLACE SYSTEM: Infrastructure ARCHIVE
TRANSFORMATION
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Cal Poly
Colby-Sawyer College
NorthamptonMass.
City University of New York,
Macaulay Honors College
The New School
Pitzer College
Rutgers, State University of
NJ
Pennsylvania State
University
Ontario College of Art and Design University
Bowling Green State
University
DOCC Nodal Sites, 2013
Key Learning Projects Shared (but voluntary)
Storming Wikipedia Keyword Videos
Feminist Mapping Blog Commenting
Object Making/Exchange
Managing Copresence
The MOOC Moment University of Chicago Press
Honor Coding
Toy Problems
The Play’s the Thing
Virtual Worlds
Gamification
Gaining Ground in the Digital University
a. The Golden Rule Should Dictate Decisions
b. Faculty and Students Should Use the Same Tools
c. “Old” Technologies Should Still Matter
d. The Issues Should be Serious
e. The Occasions Should Be Joyful
f. The Novelty Should Have Worn Off
5. What should be the principles of our freedom schools?