#edcmooc Artifact Response

My #edcmooc artifact is a direct attempt to find meaning in MOOC activity. It does not do this not by taking individual MOOC artifacts text or image, but sees MOOC activity as crowed of voices. It made no sense to me to investigate individual MOOC elements as one voice (or a number of voices in a crowd) as the crowd is too big!
Instead I attempted to layer voices, these voices came from core course texts, my own related readings and my own writing.

The layering of voices had one aim, that was to interpret MOOC activity/traffic through interaction of layers of sound (including city scape), using academic texts as voices (in place of MOOC voices/texts and images).

The method I used to interpret MOOC activity, in my opinion, explicitly attempts understand digital education as a spectacle. Digital education as a spectacle, from what I can gather/read reflects the postmodern and deindustrialisation, and current modes of capitalism. The direction I have taken can be seen to reflect course and MOOC themes to date, future, MOOC and Cyberculture in general.

I don’t think I could have achieved this in sound if I had used actual MOOC voices. But with reflection, I could have used image caught from MOOC activity to better reflect my investigation. Last week was a crazy week, also had interview for SL post. The interview was held on Friday 8th…

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