From a personal point of view I focused on the teaching aspects of two films on the Edcmooc I get this overwhelming feeling whilst watching these video’s of “when would I have time to prepare all that” Made me think of the reading by Bell (2001) who described the Internet as a working zone – lots of people required to build the system – who are paid a pittance to input data and build the Internet, suffering crippling illnesses as a result of the working conditions – referred to as dronoeconomics
I think as these are private sector companies the time would be made available, or perhaps a person would be assigned to creating the material for use in lessons and the teachers role becomes more of a deliver of material. I guess this fits with Eric Mazur’s idea of the flipped classroom – where the students / others create or research the information and the tutors just help when they need to move their ideas and thinking on
Bell, D (2001) Storying cyberspace 1: material and symbolic stories, chapter 2 of An introduction to cybercultures. Abingdon: Routledge. pp6-29. [e-book] [PDF] (To access the e-book, choose ‘UK Access management federation’ from the drop down menu and click Go. Log in with EASE.)
