@lizlosh's slide from today's #FutureU Workshop Find out more: http://digital.leuphana.com/future-u

1. The MOOC Moment:
Experiments in Scale and
Access in Higher Education
Elizabeth Losh, UC San Diego
@lizlosh on Twitter
lizlosh@ucsd.edu

6. Theoretical
Touchstones
• Technology is material (although it is often
presented as "virtual”)
• Technology involves embodiment (although it is
often presented as disembodied)
• Technology solicits affect (although it is often
presented as highly rational)
• Technology requires labor (although it is often
presented as labor-saving)
• Technology is situated in particular contexts
(although it is often presented as universal)
• Technology promotes particular political values
(although it is often presented as neutral)
• Technology requires access to tacit knowledge
practices (although it is often presented as
transparent)

8. Prototyping at the Long Table
Labor Saving Devices &
Life Support Systems

9. Feminist DH at DHSI
STS, HCI, and Media Theory

11. 1. How do we define learning?

14. What They Learn in College

15. 2. What kinds of cheating
might you want to teach?
• Finding shortcuts
• Pursuing advantage
• Gaming the system
• Locating vulnerabilities
• Crowdsourcing
• Masking identity
• Questioning loyalty

16. The War on Learning

22. 3. How can conflicts between formal
and informal learning be productive?
• Devices
• Resources
• Boundary objects
• Spaces
• Publics
• Participants
• Learning styles

23. On Camera:
The Baked Professor Makes His Debut

25. 4.What can be learned from failure?
• (Not grit, not resilience, not pulling
up by bootstraps)
• Reparative work
• Broken systems
• Queer arts
• Alternative histories

26. From Reality TV to the
Research University

29. The Rhetoric of the Open
Courseware Movement

30. Julia

32. 8. The University as a Design Problem

35. Sritama

40. FemTechNet.org

41. Trust Challenge

44. SHARED RESOURCES
that encourage
DISTRIBUTED DIALOGUE
Signature Video Dialogues around key themes
LABOR SEXUALITIES RACE
DIFFERENCE BODIES MACHINE
SYSTEM: Narrative PLACE
SYSTEM: Infrastructure ARCHIVE
TRANSFORMATION

45. !
Cal Poly
Colby-Sawyer
College
Northampton
Mass.
City University
of New York,
Macaulay
Honors
College
The New
School
Pitzer College
Rutgers, State
University of
NJ
Pennsylvania
State
University
Ontario
College of Art
and Design
University
Bowling Green
State
University
DOCC Nodal Sites, 2013

49. Key Learning Projects
Shared (but voluntary)
Storming Wikipedia
Keyword Videos
Feminist Mapping
Blog Commenting
Object Making/Exchange

52. Managing Copresence

53. The MOOC Moment
University of Chicago Press

63. Honor Coding

64. Toy Problems

65. The Play’s the Thing

66. Virtual Worlds

67. Gamification

68. Gaining Ground in the
Digital University

69. a. The Golden Rule Should
Dictate Decisions

70. b. Faculty and Students Should
Use the Same Tools

71. c. “Old” Technologies Should
Still Matter

72. d. The Issues Should be
Serious

73. e. The Occasions Should Be
Joyful

74. f. The Novelty Should Have
Worn Off

75. 5. What should be the principles of our
freedom schools?