#futuring today on #FTTE Forum: #MOOCs with @edX's @agarwaledu

…Greetings from @BryanAlexander to Future Trends Forum friends! (+ related link collection for reference and background reading)

This week we're returning to the topic of MOOCs, with the guidance of one of the world leaders in that field.  On Thursday, October 4th, from 2-3 pm ET, we'll be joined by Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX and professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A Guitar Lesson

Via Stephen Downes' OLDaily, a very different part of my life from the #Mountainair NM community blogging part. #change11 and other #MOOC/s are experimental, innovative mind stretching online learning experiences. Worlds do intersect. Techies and Luddites find common cause. Serendipity and synergy happen upon us unawares. Only unawares and unanticipated. 

This fits the music outreach side of iCreate that tends to get short end of blogging... thereby recalling me not just back to music but other creative projects. Another experimental course, #CMC11, Creativity & Multicultural Communication comes to mind. 

                                                     Guitar Lesson 5

        Dean Shareski, Ideas and Thoughts, October 18, 2011

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Stephen comments, 

Dean Shareski and some of his students are trying to learn things and documenting the results. His guitar lessons are interesting, and I quite like his students' non-traditional learning:

• Cole...learning Japanese
• Nicole...learning crochet
• Hillary...learning meditation
• Edgar...learning Assassin's Creed
• Courtney...learning to draw

It's interesting that it doesn't matter what they are learning - by documenting their progress, they are not only improving their learning, they are - over time - learning how to learn. And I like what Shareski is doing, modelling the process, and not just talking about it.


[Tags: Project Based Learning, Online Learning, Ontologies]