What I found funny about this article is that my MOOCs fail on all four points. Here are the 'pitfalls': lack of clear objectives; not considering the audience; overloading content; and neglecting evaluation and feedback. Of course, in a cMOOC there are no clear learning objectives; each person has their own reason for participation and expects to get something different out of it, and the knowledge created during the course cannot be predicted in advance. Also, you can't tailor the course to a specific audience in a massive course; you might get only 22 people, but you need to expect 22,000 - just in case. In a cMOOC as well there is usually more content than anyone can consume - the first task for course participants to select the content they're interested in; this guarantees a variety of perspectives and generates interesting conversations. And finally, of course, a cMOOC has no learning assessment in the traditional manner; feedback is provided by participants in the course to each other, and participants decide for themselves whether they have gained what they needed from the course.
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