{"id":50,"date":"2013-04-09T11:50:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T10:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2013-04-09T17:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:25:26","slug":"potential-for-moocs-in-development-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/2013\/04\/09\/potential-for-moocs-in-development-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential for MOOCs in Development Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">For:<br \/>\nAccess to different point of view<br \/>\nAccess to broader range of resources than available locally<br \/>\nDevelopment of digital skills<br \/>\n<\/span>Development of Personal Learning Network<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Against:<br \/>\nRisk of US domination of HE content<br \/>\n<\/span>Much content first world focused with inappropriate assumptions<br \/>\nRisk of importing first world view of developing world<br \/>\nInadequate digital skills to cope with cMOOC or maybe even with xMOOC<br \/>\nLimited access to equipment and adequate broadband network<\/p>\n<p>So a &#8216;catch 22&#8217; of opportunity limited by existing inexperience and opportunity\/risk balance of dependence on free external sources. \u00a0Maybe a locally tutored and assessed overlay on international content would be a good compromise, with intensive support on digital skills and navigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For: Access to different point of view Access to broader range of resources than available locally Development of digital skills Development of Personal Learning Network Against: Risk of US domination of HE content Much content first world focused with inappropriate assumptions Risk of importing first world view of developing world Inadequate digital skills to cope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h817open-2","tag-h817open"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}