1/30 MOOC Update: Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application (FOEPA)
The Coursera course Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application (FOEPA) started on Monday with a number of issues; We were instructed to create groups of 20 students using a Google Spreadsheet. Seems simple enough, but with a few thousand people trying to edit a single document at a time, it quickly became a morass. Rows were copied, people were deleted from groups, and the site used their mobile theme because of the load. I never realized how limited Coursera's discussion forums are. I can't search by discussion forum, see a person's posts (namely mine) on one page, and change the default viewing method. Having the default to a discussion forum be that you subscribe to it, with no options for digest emails, has blown up my inbox. Sure its a pretty simple thing to change, but its annoying. For the first assignment we were asked to respond to a few readings. Below is one of my responses. The article Online Teaching and Classroom Change: The Trans