{"id":385,"date":"2012-08-27T01:48:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T07:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2012-08-27T01:48:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T07:48:17","slug":"online-teaching-mooc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/online-teaching-mooc\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Teaching MOOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Academic year, another rich menu of MOOCs from which to choose.\u00a0 Pedagogy First is offering the <a title=\"POT\" href=\"http:\/\/pedagogyfirst.org\/wppf12\/\" target=\"_blank\">Program for Online Teaching<\/a> again.\u00a0 I heard Lisa Lane tell about it (in a hangout with Jeff Lebow, I think) some time ago.\u00a0\u00a0 Somewhere between the connectivist cMOOK and content-centric xMOOC, Lisa describes it as &#8220;task based&#8221; and a &#8220;sMOOC&#8221; (for small MOOC).\u00a0 Thanks to Stephen Downes&#8217; <a title=\"oldaily\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/archive\/12\/08_22_news_OLDaily.htm\" target=\"_blank\">OLDaily<\/a>, POT came to my attention again at just the right time.<\/p>\n<p>I &#8220;fell&#8221; into online teaching when learners in other communities asked if they could join our T\u0142\u0131\u0328cho\u0328 Language classes last winter.\u00a0 Blending local f2f learners with online participants presents unique challenges.\u00a0 I muddled along, trying to reinvent the proverbial wheel by cobbling together Skype, trial subscriptions to Blackboard Collaborate, email lists, and my Moodle installation.\u00a0 To my surprise, it was considered a success, and I&#8217;ve been asked to repeat it this year.\u00a0 My fledgling online teaching experience should give me hooks where I can hang new learning from POT.\u00a0 And, while not safe-as-in-sandbox, my language class will be my proving ground.\u00a0 They will judge whether my pedagogy improves as I journey through this sMOOC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Academic year, another rich menu of MOOCs from which to choose.\u00a0 Pedagogy First is offering the Program for Online Teaching again.\u00a0 I heard Lisa Lane tell about it (in a hangout with Jeff Lebow, I think) some time ago.\u00a0\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/online-teaching-mooc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-potcert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xsA3-6d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}