http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/258 pragmatism over zeal Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:11:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/258/comment-page-1#comment-2055 sundar Tue, 09 May 2006 10:51:31 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/258#comment-2055 Hi David, What you are saying connects with me to big extent. I have worked as RA (Research Assistant), TA (Teaching) and GA (Graduate) and one thing I would like to stress here is the power of the interacting student community. All the sessions I conducted where there were active peer to peer exchanges enhanced the value of the session. This is currently lost in the MIT OCW model. As you say, recording the sessions might present this interaction for the next group of students. Another thing would be to record and archive the interactions (say in the form of online chat or discussion forums) which are conducted while some students are simultanesouly watching the archive of the lectures. A TA or a Professor could also login at the time of maximum audience and participate in the discussions. This will increase the realtime feedback cycle whcih I feel is essential in any immersive learning experience. To quote you back to you (!) this would be a "move from “learning object repositories� to “open courseware�" Regards, ~sundar Hi David,
What you are saying connects with me to big extent. I have worked as RA (Research Assistant), TA (Teaching) and GA (Graduate) and one thing I would like to stress here is the power of the interacting student community. All the sessions I conducted where there were active peer to peer exchanges enhanced the value of the session. This is currently lost in the MIT OCW model. As you say, recording the sessions might present this interaction for the next group of students. Another thing would be to record and archive the interactions (say in the form of online chat or discussion forums) which are conducted while some students are simultanesouly watching the archive of the lectures. A TA or a Professor could also login at the time of maximum audience and participate in the discussions. This will increase the realtime feedback cycle whcih I feel is essential in any immersive learning experience. To quote you back to you (!) this would be a “move from “learning object repositoriesâ€? to “open coursewareâ€?”
Regards,
~sundar

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