{"id":466,"date":"2013-01-29T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T20:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hybridflc\/?p=466"},"modified":"2013-01-29T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T20:22:35","slug":"im-not-too-good-at-following-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hybridflc\/2013\/01\/29\/im-not-too-good-at-following-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t follow directions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s look to the future, shall we? I know we are early in the process, and I for one have very little clue about what the “online content” of our course should or will be. However, I am equally concerned about the in-class (“f2f”!) content as well. You see, I read the NY Times op-ed “Revolution Hits the Universities<\/a>” by Thomas Friedman\u00a0 and have been wondering about what sets a bricks & mortar university apart from MOOCs. I’m all for democratizing education, but in this op-ed, the argument that MOOCs are somehow important because 40,000 students can sign up for a free course seems like empty bean counting\u00a0 Sure, this avoids Pitfall #3 “Avoid being the sage on the stage”, but certainly exacerbates Pitfalls #1 and #4. How can any person provide meaningful feedback to 40,000 students? Crowd-sourcing the grading of a writing assignment for a “class” of this size would be fraught with all sorts of problems, so would these courses simply be examples of filling “student containers” with content? I think the in-class portion of a blended course is where the B&M university can earn its pay and is one important place where tuition paying students should\/will be able to perceive the value of their education. I know that hybrid courses and MOOCs are employing different paths to different ends, but if a goal of education is to teach students how to think, I hope to learn in this workshop how to reinforce thinking in both the f2f and online environments for different class sizes up to large “lecture” courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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