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

Created through funding received by the University of Prince Edward Island through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's "Knowledge Synthesis Grants on the Digital Economy" http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/M...

CC-BY 2010

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[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.

[dave cormier]

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

[dave cormier]

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.