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Don, Showing my age, I thought POET was the appetizer for DOET! ;-) Sorry to be a bit of a skeptic here, but isn't MOOC just another buzzword puffed by Stephen Downes and George Siemens to sell stale bread as a new loaf? At one point E-Learning 2.0 was the greatest thing going, then it was Connectivism and now it seems it is MOOCs. It seems they will do anything to try to get their re-jigging of old ideas on everyone's lips to create a buzz that seasoned HCI experts who remember Computer based learning, Web-based learning, then E-Learning coming into vogue. How is a MOOC technologically any different from any open learning object system, such as Hypercard and MICROCOSM? What is it other a Web-based non-portable SCORM object run by education establishments? How is it any more than branding for something the Open University has been doing with OpenLearn for decades? http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ Jonathan Bishop On 22 December 2013 17:27, Don Norman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Gunnar Swanson <[log in to unmask] > >wrote: > > > Your class is an appetizer rather than the full meal so, > > > Thanks, Gunnar for such a nice review. > > The class is indeed just an appetizer -- as is, for that matter, the book > upon which it is based. I have always thought of the book DOET (and the > MOOC) as whetting the appetite (appetizer), with the main course coming > from a more established, conventional curriculum. > > But let me quickly point out that I did not conceive of the design > exercises: they were done by my colleague Kristian Simsarian, which is > indeed why I invited him to participate. So the Time Bank idea comes from > Kristian. > > Kristian has a PhD in Computer Science, but is a designer: he worked at > IDEO for many years and now heads the interaction design program at CCA in > San Francisco (California College of the Arts). > https://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/ksimsarian > > Don > > > > Don Norman > Nielsen Norman Group, IDEO Fellow > [log in to unmask] www.jnd.org http://www.core77.com/blog/columns/ > Book: "Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded< > http://amzn.to/ZOMyys>" > (DOET2). > Course: Udacity On-Line course based on > DOET2<https://www.udacity.com/course/design101> > (free). > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> > Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design > Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------