#Change 11 Teacher and Learner Roles and MOOC

The post http://connectiv.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/change11-teacher-roles-and-mooc/ put things together very nicely for me since I have been trying to collect my thoughts on this one too. I am still left asking myself about the feasibility of the corresponding learner roles in a learning context where the teacher fills the roles outlined by Jaap. How many of us would be able to fill the corresponding learner roles? Being in the middle of teaching a large online course (70 students rather than my usual 20; still far from a MOOC in terms of objectives, structure, and numbers), I am also left asking questions about the teacher-student connection in MOOCs. What happens when the pat on the head, f2f or virtual, disappears? In this larger 70-person course, I no longer recognize the heads...

Change MOOC 2011

I've always been too busy slogging away at teaching about rather than doing. Absurdly, I've prepared countless lessons for my pre-service and graduate students on blogs, wikis, forums -- all the digital environments enhancing collaborative learning -- but had too little time to actually use blogs in real situations. So I've recently opened this blog as an area in which I hope to summarize experiences and post reflections as I participate in the Change MOOC (and hopefully have the time both for the blog postings and the participation in the MOOC). Right now, I need to catch up with the past 12 days in the Change MOOC #change11, during which time I know I was barely there. Here goes...

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