Comments on: Breaking ties with the real http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/stephaniec/2013/02/22/breaking-ties-with-the-real/ part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:22:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Jen Ross http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/stephaniec/2013/02/22/breaking-ties-with-the-real/#comment-258 Jen Ross Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:42:40 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/stephaniec/2013/02/22/breaking-ties-with-the-real/#comment-258 "this RL anchoring... is, arguably, overly sentimental towards the traditional." That concerns me, also. Nicely put. This post connects (in my mind) with my ponderings on openings from the edcmooc teaching blog the other week. http://edcmoocteam.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/riveroflearning/ Who are we leaving behind, and to whom is our responsibility (especially in an 'open' course)? As teachers, can we avoid defining who the course is (and therefore isn't) for, and let it sort itself out? Or are our choices inevitably defining the possibilities of belonging? “this RL anchoring… is, arguably, overly sentimental towards the traditional.”

That concerns me, also. Nicely put. This post connects (in my mind) with my ponderings on openings from the edcmooc teaching blog the other week. http://edcmoocteam.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/riveroflearning/

Who are we leaving behind, and to whom is our responsibility (especially in an ‘open’ course)? As teachers, can we avoid defining who the course is (and therefore isn’t) for, and let it sort itself out? Or are our choices inevitably defining the possibilities of belonging?

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