Three. Support other people to learn #edcmooc

The temptation of the MOOC discussion environment is to post in isolation from other people. We say what we have to say but do not relate it to other posts or enter into a discussions. In a sense it is a form of personal advertising. Flashing up a relevant opinion and the rolling onto the next. The lack of interaction is dehumanising as it is only through interaction with other comments that we know another person has read, ingested and formulated a new opinion.

One might imagine a machine, a random opinion generator, spamming off preformed opinions gleaned form the web in response to reading a discussion topic stream and making an algorithmic match to something from another part of the web. It might not even be a machine but an instrumental student posting to make their quota. No one learns in these interactions. It is educational landfill, a horizontal line of valueless text in a landscape.

Help add texture and  build the learning landscape up. Take a comment and add some value. Call for a response form the poster. Help them to learn something new today.

"Support other people to learn"