Since nearly a month, I am participating in my first MOOC – “Open Networked Learning”. First of all: I’ve heard about the drop out statistics of MOOCs. Thousands of people start participating in a MOOC and after a few weeks they drop out and never finish. By knowing this I decided not to join one of the working groups but take part more as a “lurking student”.
Here are my first impressions:
- Surprising: We are just 88 participants, but the group is quite international! Up till now I have been thinking that “massive” means thousands of participants!
- Interesting and inspiring: The syllabus and the concept of the learning environment. We are working with google+, googledrive, wordpress, and twitter, one named aim of the course is to use an alternative to LMS. Weiterlesen My first MOOC: „Open Networked Learning“ – first impressions