MOOC learning’s fast evolution makes it a work in progress - Bernard Lane, the Australian

Professor Armando Fox, the computer scientist who helped launch the first MOOC for the University of California at Berkeley, reaches back to the staid early history of movies to explain where online education is today. “When the first motion picture camera was invented, they pointed it at a stage with live actors,” he says. “It took people a while to realise that it was actually a medium that allowed you to do things quite differently. “That’s a little bit like where we are with MOOCs now. We’re taking elements that are familiar from residential education — such as lectures, homework assignments, and syllabi that stretch out several weeks — and we’re sort of trying to reproduce those elements online.” The radical possibility of MOOCs is hard to imagine. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/mooc-learnings-fast-evolution-makes-it-a-work-in-progress/story-e6frgcjx-1227142463746?nk=03d0b7a2bea6ff8eefc95b96fdea0f5d