MOOCs...again

SITE General session and keynote with Paul Kim of Stanford University

"Designing a New Learning Environment with a MOOC"

gse-it.stanford.edu/about/team/paulkim

*Dr. Kim and I are the same age, but reviewing his accomplishments I feel like a real slacker.

MOOCs must have a purpose. What is the andragogy? What are the system features?

7 billion people on earth. 3 billion mobile phones on earth.

Mobile learning is being made available for children who have never owned a book. Dr. Park distributes mobile phones to children in poor areas around the world and tells them he got them from aliens and has no idea how they work. The children assure Dr. Park they will help him figure out how the devices work...and that's how they learn.

Dr. Kim's efforts focus on moving from remembering and understanding in the classroom to creating.

Sustainability and scalability of projects is always a challenge. 25% of 450,000 notebook computers distributed to children in Uruguay are still being used. Dr. Kim wants to know why.

"Cultural DNA" - very hard to change our mind sets about how learning should occur. In class vs. mobile learning.

Teachers may not be the only source of knowledge these days.

Dr. Kim created a MOOC "Designing a New Learning Environment," to get help thinking outside the box about learning. He had 20,000+ enrollees from over 100 countries.

*For the rest of the presentation I struggled with Internet connection problems. So I will publish link to Dr. Kim's MOOC for you to explore.

Here it is! http://venturelab.stanford.edu/education
 
Postscript: Dr. Kim mentioned Anya Kamenetz's book "DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education," and asked who in the audience had read it. My response:

#siteconf Does it make me a dork that I was proud to say I had read @anya1anyaDIY U when Dr. Paul Kim asked in his presentation on MOOCs?
— Peggy Delmas (@PeggyDelmas) March 27, 2013

#siteconf AND I required @anya1anya DIY U as text for higher ed leadership class! Great stuff.
— Peggy Delmas (@PeggyDelmas) March 27, 2013

The best part is that the goddess herself, Anya Kamenetz, retweeted the second tweet! I can't figure out how to embed her retweet here, but I promise you it was the highlight of the conference for my nerdy little higher ed-lovin' self.