User:Sjgknight/sandbox/MOOC research

New Section - MOOCs as a research platform - ?

Lots of the uni attention (particularly at the launch of EdX as I remember) was re: changing pedagogy, learning about how students learn, ability to use big data, etc. So this might warrant a separate section. Could include:

Lytics lab at Stanford led by Roy Pea Learning analytics and its associated conference Media and press-release quotes re this stuff at launch and since Critique - much of which may link to other sections, e.g. just replicating old lecture format, issues with big data, etc., consent, etc.

Any other things that should go in? Is this worthy of a section in its own right? Sjgknight (talk) 07:02, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Absolutely. Anything to do with generating it's own data, research on that data, changing methods based on the research, etc. Maybe slightly broader. Smallbones(smalltalk) 20:50, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Just parking a possible source The Hijacking of MOOCs Smallbones(smalltalk) 22:16, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Doesn't really relate to research platform...perhaps move it up to the 'parked links' section. This is quite an active discussion among cmooc and OER people many of whom feel the mooc philosophy of free and open education for all of early moocs is being overshadowed by a model driven by venture capital. Sjgknight (talk) 07:03, 9 May 2013 (UTC) In fact, this link is already in the parked links section. Sjgknight (talk) 07:06, 9 May 2013 (UTC)