by George Siemens, eLearnspace
“Why is trust important in an open course? Well, an open course starts as a shell with the instructor providing links, articles, and activities. From there, learners take course content and massage it, enhance it, extend it, clarify it, question it, and improve it. Passionate learners – the ones to take the time to improve a course – need a level of trust and transparency between course organizers. In an open course, the educator isn’t the one showering participants with gifts of knowledge. The process of learning is iterative and the relationship is mutually beneficial. Participants do the course organizers as much of a favour in joining as the course organizers do in opening the course.”
http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2011/09/09/stanford-ai-mooc-lets-try-transparency/
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