Oh, my gosh - how exciting - I was in the discussion area and reading discussions and one of the posts is by Terry Anderson, whose work plays a major role in the theory behind my research for my dissertation. Outside of attending a national conference, my chances of "meeting" him are nil. The ability to make connections and see what those on the cutting edge of the theory have to say is one of the major affordances of MOOCs.
Of course, all hasn't been great - I had meetings all day and the few down times I had, the internet was out - and I worked on this blog, but it seems to have not saved. Now I've got to think about what I was saying to finish this up and it's much later than I'd care to be working. Maybe I'll just hang around in the discussion areas......
Oh, wait - I found it - my two cents
I agree with the concept that all learning is active however to use the
term "participant pedagogy" doesn't work for me for does it not make all
other types of pedagogies nonparticipatory? If so, then are they
pedagogies since the pure definition of pedagogy is "the art, science or
profession of teaching" according to Webster's online dictionary.
So I think we need to dig further and look more at learning and how to
define it. Of course, since there are many types of learning, it helps
to first decide are we looking at informal learning, structured
learning, institutional learning.
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