edcmooc - The Disruptive Education Learning Experience

The learner experience within the MOOC is rather like waking up in a learning storm. It’s a threatening, cacophonous, attention-grabbing, clattering synchronous space, very different to our notions of a ‘conventional’ learning space, even a ‘conventional e-learning space’. This is more like ‘academic facebook/discussion boards/twitter’ – all at the same time. The resources are good, the readings are challenging and the discussions and peer-activity is really helpful.

But it’s still a learning storm! The learning experience in disruptive education?