A long-time proponent of online learning (and co-editor of the 1995 book Learning Networks) Linda Harasim is openly critical of MOOCs, and notably, in this comment on a Tony Bates post, argues that cMOOCs are no better than xMOOCs. "One of the things that baffles me about the whole MOOC phenomenon," she writes, "is the 'magical thinking' that surrounds this concept and its various articulations... Siemens and Downes propound a disturbing quality to technology, one in which technology becomes an active participant in the learning process. And not merely an active participant but inevitably superior agent." The whole comment is worth a read. I respond here.
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