Knowledge in a MOOC

Dave explains Knowledge in a MOOC.

Written and Narrated by Dave Cormier
Video by Neal Gillis

Researchers:
Dave Cormier
Alexander McAuley
George Siemens
Bonnie Stewart

CC-BY 2010

[karenventer]

Wow, I think to me this sounds like online authentic reciprocal sharing of teaching and learning experience, just like life long research every moment that you interact during the MOOC.
Karen Venter, South Africa

[davecormier]

ThePlanetHorizon (TT) Huh. I did this a long time ago... Let me re-listen.

First 30 seconds defines 'traditional' instructivist pedagogies. So that sets the stage.
Not one thing you need to know. Starting point for negotiation
The catalyst part and the emergent part is a bit repetitive :)
I totally agree that :45-1:15 could have been tighter.
Knowledge network - is about outcomes from a course
Knowledge in the field - that's about MOOCs changing knowledge more broadly

That was done off the cuff (based on the research study we had done) :) the other two videos in this series were done by script.

[NellieDeutsch]

I hope educators and faculty members will be more open to the ideals Dave is taking about. I believe we could gain so much by learning together. Information is accessible for most, so why not collaborate and test "these assertions" in a MOOC?

[angelbranamd]

Excellent approach to share knowledge! Glad I've found it!

[davecormier]

The videos were knowledge translation from the article i've just added to the video description.

[VinhNguyen-vdpn]

You try to give the video more brightness it will be great if you do

[junioreliomelim]

MOOC, or your own website, with videos, teaching material and a forum for interaction with your students? What do you think about it?

[pedagogia]

Ele da uma introdução ao mooc, fala como ele é usado, as bases de conhecimento e como ele vai ser distribuidor desse conhecimento. (Jaq)

[ThePlanetHorizon]

It seems that like you're saying the same thing over again in different sentences. You are saying that the interaction is the vehicle of knowledge. You're saying that the structure of the web, different connections throughout the system, is facilitating the learning.

[davecormier]

I should add, however, that no amount of testing would ever convince me that what is in these videos would be 'facts'. I don't see knowledge that way.

[DrRickHoefer]

I know this is just a 2 minute video, but I find it full of assertions without a shred of evidence that these outcomes are really achieved. It is the ideology of MOOCs, not knowledge in a MOOC. Maybe one of your other videos goes into the evidence that's been gathered on the subject to back up these assertions. If so, that's great and I'll look further. If not, then it would be good to admit that these claims are only untested hypotheses, not facts.