Open Teaching

In the video, Wisley described the Then vs Now in Education:

• Analog vs Digital
• Tethered vs Mobile
• Isolated vs Connected
• Generic vs Personal
• Consumption vs Creating
• Closed vs Open

He also indicated that E-Learning is not open teaching. The difference between E-Learning and Open Teaching course like MOOC is: E-Learning is Digital, Mobile, but Isolated, Generic, Consumption, and Closed. MOOC is built based on social learning & networking. It’s open, so everyone can take the course and decide how they are going to participant and contribute to the course. It is very different from the traditional course settings.

The Success in a MOOC video below provides some answers to my questions when I was thinking how I can prepare myself and what to expect in a MOOC course. And most importantly, how I can measure my achievement in a MOOC course.



The video talked about five steps to success in MOOC: Orient, Declare, Network, Cluster, and Focus. I am facing two issues in this Openness in Education course: 1. Not able to show my post on the first page; 2. Nobody comments on my post. I thought the second issue was related to the first one, but maybe I need to leave a comment when I visited other participants’ blogs. I did visit a few good blogs but never left comments. I need to transfer myself into a more open and more aggressive status and plan my own personal learning network (PLN).