More reflection on massive open online courses (moocs). Jennifer Chesney writes, "We need to get serious about collaboration and create a lattice for learning so that students can weave in and out of them as they wish, in what makes sense to them." Also, Tony Searl wonders, "Would (M)OOc's be any more successful with self organised learners drawn from non traditional non-institutional backgrounds? Those from a clean slate un-schooled environment who did not have to unlearn previous potentially inefficient ways of learning?" Finally, One thing the courses have taught me (and this lesson appears only a month after the course ends) is that the start-stop nature of the course provides a necessary disruption in the settled order of the network. A Boltzmann mechanism on a larger scale - one where we 'shake up' the network and let it reform, as a process of annealing.
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