#EDCMOOC hangout

I Watched parts of it live and the rest now from the archived footage - the one hour hangout of the team from Edinburgh



http://youtu.be/InthTAX8Xjc.

Good to feel connected and see and hear some talking heads.

here are some timestamps and pointers:
- ca 5 minutes - HamishMacLeod gives statistics from the course in Coursera. 17% of participants are active.
- 6 min - Google Analytics shows aggregation of blogs.
- 11 min - logging in is defiend as the minimal level of activity in the MOOC.
- 12 min - Sian sharing a quote about Postmodernism & education
- 15 min - Showing of images on the Flickr stream:


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- 18 min - Christine talks about MOOC processes and group forming and what is happening and not happening there. - 23 min - how to get to studygroups within the Discussion Forum of EDCMOOC on Coursera
https://class.coursera.org/edc-001/forum/list?forum_id=18.
- 24 min - Jeremy talking about Steve Fuller lecture - what it is to be human in a historical context. Has changed throughout history.
The slides of the presentation of Fuller:
https://spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com/edc/readings/TEDx%20lecture%20Steve%20Fuller.ppsx.
Purpose of humanity is to strive to increasing the difference between us and other living beings. This is done through technology. Asimov in 1988 talked about humanism and dilemmas of potential modification. http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/the-future-of-education-from-isaac-asimov-1988-edcmooc/. "A must watch video" said David Hopkins.
Jeremy tweeted: Blogs I mentioned in the hangout: http://krustelkrammoocs.blogspot.com/2013/02/steve-fuller-isaac-asimov-what-is.html … and http://jimsweetmanmooc.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/defining-humanity/.

32 minutes - Sian talks about the process of the Mooc development. The university signed an agreement with Coursera before this, and then there was a search for academic teams who would be keen to do a MOOC. Our institution was aware of the MOOC debate. "We wanted to experiment with the combinateion of the massiveness of the Mooc and the uniqueness of the credited course". 40 min. - Christine Sinclair talks about what might be retained after the course. The #EDCMOOC team does not have control over what Coursera will do with the material. "From our point of view it is great if people stay in touch".

relation of a Talking head and the particular for in which this MOOC has been set up. A little bit early to say what MOOCs are, says Hamish.
47 min. - about Reassurance, very important, that people are comfortable..
The next time some Edinburgh Mooc runs, there will far lower enrollment figures because there will be less window shoppers.
Jen Ross looks forward in seeing how MOOCs break out from the campus / class model and develop in something new. This is the first wave of Coursera courses in the UK. Christine Sinclair likes the idea of window shopping because potential students can try out things before actually starting a formal course. There is a lot of pressure on teachers to maintain students, and students have to put in a lot of investment.

About the final assignment http://youtu.be/InthTAX8Xjc?t=53m (at 53 min.). Copyright issues are complex and it depends on where you are. "A bit of a bouncing act" - reference things that you are using. Follow your interest, and look at the assessment criteria. How would you redeliver the key messages of the course. Rewording it.