This presentation discusses whether the characteristics of successful MOOCs can apply to traditional, smaller, and in-person first-year writing courses—specifically, their openness, their tendency toward connectivity, and their use of distance.

1. More Than Cogs
Using MOOC Pedagogies to Resist the
Mechanization of FYC Students
@chris_friend
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2. Standardized
Education
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3. Human
Interaction
individualized
social
networked
Educational
Process
creativity
flexibility
play
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4. Standardization
ExpertiseHeirarchy
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5. MOOCs
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6. xMOOCs
✤
Pre-packaged
✤
Value duplication
✤
Content can be tested
✤
Prestige counts
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7. cMOOCs
✤
Networked/distributed
✤
Value creation, creativity,
autonomy, social connections
✤
Content can be shared
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8. Student Work
Course Texts
Collaboration
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9. Connectivity
SourcesEvaluation Peer Review
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10. Distance
Constant
Ubiquitous
Relevant
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11. What’s Next?
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12. @jessifer
Jesse Stommel
@slamteacher
Sean Michael
Morris @writingasjoe
Janine DeBaise
MOOCification
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13. 24 Hours Only
Saturday,
June 15
moocmooc.com
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14. Thank you.
Chris Friend
University of Central Florida
@chris_friend
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15. Image Credits
• Gears from Manu_H on Flickr
• “Educate in Batches” from
RSA Animate, based on Ken
Robinson’s “Changing
Educational Paradigms” TED
Talk
• Desks by dcJohn on Flickr
• Freight containers by
Lightmash on Flickr
• Creation of Adam by
Michaelangelo, image from
Wikimedia Commons
• Open button by Iguana Jo on
Flickr
• Cabled woman by cszar on
Flickr
• Ethernet cable from Tueskta
on Flickr
• String phone from Florian
SEROUSSI on Flickr
• MOOCMOOC monster from
Jesse Stommel
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