Moore EDC MOOC Submission

• 1. Name: Andrew Moore [email protected] I work closely with academics in African Higher Education institutions and support them to develop online versions of their courses. Technology is important but Ive always championed sound pedagogy. Johannesburg, S outh Africa

2. Take that Apple fan boys! ChandlersTechnologicalDeterminism Dahlberg Dahlberg would categorise my Tech perspective as falling into the Uses Determinism camp. The implication is that Ive always played down the technological as well as the social influences by emphasising the users control and agency. Awareness of this has opened up a whole new way of looking at the relationship between the three components and identification of potential barriers to success. Personal Discovery Utopias & Dystopias: Past 3. Utopias & Dystopias: Future Loved Shirkys provocative posturing and side with Thrun that MOOCs are still experimental and will need to be fine tuned over time. Critical of Badys belief that the old state college system can be resurrected in a country that is facing economic hardship and enormous government debt. Also for me his alternative is insular and does not benefit global education. But its Campbells reading of Bateson and his call for trans-contextual learning that has got me fired up. Personal Discovery Campbell 4. Being Human: Reasserting Professionally Im a Humanist. I want the best for those students I come across in the disadvantaged institutions I work. But then Fuller identifies a movement that believes Humanity Not Good for All that identifies the duplicity in some of the motives and even questions viability of universal access. As an individual Im NOT a Humanist at heart and find the approach reactionary and conservative. Im torn in two and not sure how to resolve this schism. At least its out in the open now waiting for me to investigate further. Personal Discovery MEAT Fukuyama Post Humanism gonna kill us off but thats OK cos History is dead! 5. Being Human: Redefining Roll on the Trans-humanists Cant wait to be enhanced. Think Ill lose the glasses first! The video, True Skin, was stunning. Of significance though was my reading of the TEL report. It highlights that while Developed countries are way ahead of many of the Developing nations in terms of access to technology they still have not really exploited it properly in the area of Education. Many of the themes that structure the report are the type of things Im trying to encourage with those I work. Admittedly our attempts are modest but it looks like we are on the right track. Personal Discovery Bostrom ELC