Friday, September 16, 2011

Instructor Broadcasting: courses about participants, not instructors

Nice and short from George Siemens (http://www.elearnspace.org/) in talking about Stanford U. (http://www.ai-class.com/) massive open AI course.  His point is not so much about the specific course, but about the overall direction of course design.  Or, to paraphrase another famous quote: "it's the learner, stupid"

"Quick advice to Know Labs: whatever your platform becomes, design it to optimize learner sharing of their sensemaking artifacts, not instrutor broadcasting. It's an obvious statement, but if you want to unleash the creativity of participants, tools need to be designed for them, not for instructors"

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