No room for sloppiness in online classroom - Mike Sharples, the Conversation

When your classroom is a global one, filled with well-informed online learners, they don’t cut you much slack, The Conversation reports. Hundreds of people pore over every element of your course, making well-informed and sometime acerbic comments. Academics who run Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are finding that they can’t afford any sloppy reasoning, one-sided arguments, or narrow perspectives when teaching to a massive global audience. As academic lead at FutureLearn, a company offering free online courses from UK universities, I’ve seen that this instant feedback can be eye-opening for course designers. http://theconversation.com/no-room-for-sloppiness-in-online-classroom-21861