Saturday 16 November 2013

Rules of engagement #edcmooc

Its technology Jim, just as we know it


Questions about technology and society, technology and education even technology and MOOCs to me seem to have become sterile.  They focus on process and effects (determinism) when they would be more productive looking at capabilities, benefits and outcomes. You won’t learn much that is useful about a Library and its contents by studying the machine that issues the books.


The point is that the MOOC like many (all?) things in life won’t work without technology. Lets get over it and move on. The real driving force behind the MOOC are minds that created it in the first place, the interaction/moderation of instructors and the engagement of students/participants.


Five rules of engagement


More interesting is how do you communicate your humanity through the medium of technology. It may be that we need some guidelines or rules to help us think about this. The following are proposed as a starting point.


ONE. Be who you are
No alias, no anonymous posting, be one hundred per cent genuine.

TWO. Be civil 
Treat each other with consideration, courtesy, politeness  and respect. See Wikipedia's advice to editors here.

THREE. Support other people to learn
You get back more than you give.

FOUR. Additionality, bring gifts, links and clicks
Crowd source the resource base.

FIVE. Engage
Don’t be a spectator engage on your own account.

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