{"id":142,"date":"2013-04-03T14:39:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T14:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/?p=142"},"modified":"2013-04-03T14:39:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T14:39:36","slug":"confessions-of-a-mooc-lurker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/2013\/04\/03\/confessions-of-a-mooc-lurker\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a MOOC lurker."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I confess: I am a MOOC lurker. I signed up for <a href=\"https:\/\/class.coursera.org\/composition-001\/class\/index\" target=\"_blank\">English Composition 1:\u00a0Achieving\u00a0Expertise<\/a>, by Duke University on Coursera, because the course I originally signed up for was a computer course and required a PC (which I don&#8217;t have at home). However, the writing course was just starting and I thought it would be a relevant topic for me to get involved in.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few components to the course:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Video lectures<\/li>\n<li>Online readings and resources<\/li>\n<li>Writing assignments<\/li>\n<li>Discussion boards and peer review of writing\u00a0assignments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The video lectures are good. They are more of an assortment of guest speakers, talking about their disciplines and how they see writing for those disciplines. I could see these presentations getting added to a repository that faculty at other institutions could use as supplemental course material. The potential \u00a0&#8220;openness&#8221; of that material is very exciting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really impressed by easy access to the online readings and resources. Required eBooks are accessed in a click, and viewable in most browsers I tried. But what I would love, love, love, is a way of adding highlights to the book, making comments, and populating a discussion board with them. There should be a way of auto-generating that type of interactivity, but I don&#8217;t know if\u00a0available\u00a0in this format. (I&#8217;ve attempted it in a Google+ Hangout, with varying levels of success.)<\/p>\n<p>None of the writing assignments or peer feedback tasks have stared yet &#8211; but they will this week. However, some of the initial &#8216;getting to know you&#8217; discussion board posts have over 4K views of them. Other posts have zero. So I&#8217;m not sure what to expect from this type of\u00a0interaction\u00a0&#8211; but I would really like to see what kind of comments get posted before submitted here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I confess: I am a MOOC lurker. I signed up for English Composition 1:\u00a0Achieving\u00a0Expertise, by Duke University on Coursera, because the course I originally signed up for was a computer course and required a PC (which I don&#8217;t have at home). However, the writing course was just starting and I thought it would be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}