MOOCs are Not the Enemy

MOOCs are not the Enemy: Networked, non-Imperialist

MOOC models

#TtW13 Bonnie Stewart

University of Prince Edward Island

Disruption, Revolution, and Bears, oh my!

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…maybe a frenemy?

What is the future of higher education?  

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Colonialism! Imperialism!Predatory Privatization!

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Stay away from the internet. Got it.

MOOCs = Many Things (Not Change Drivers)

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The system of higher ed is in shift

Education = the final digital frontier    

 IBIS  Capital:  Global  e-­‐Learning  Investment  Review,  2013    

Education = globalization

NYTimes,  UNESCO  Data  

Education = online

GSV  Advisors,  2012  

We are subjects of these systems

Academic hierarchy

Globalization  

Venture capital

  Data surveillance

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But MOOCs = more than Borg

The cMOOC = A Networked, Non-Imperialist MOOC model

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MOOCs embody digital practices Harness & contribute to knowledge abundance Are participatory Are networked Are distributed Generate knowledge & connections that extend beyond course Share the processes of knowledge work, not just the products

cMOOCs = cyborg?

THE CYBORG EDUCATOR •  Subject of the system •  Instrument of the system •  Subverter of the system

“Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original

innocence but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that

marked them as other.” - Haraway 1991

MOOCs can foster networked identities

Don’t be afraid…

Thank you. @bonstewart