Tuesday, September 6, 2011

MOOCs in Virtual Worlds

Getting set up for a couple of MOOCs this fall.  Change.MOOC.ca and CMC11
I'm on the roster for week 8 of CMC11.

I've been participating in these fabulous learning experiences for a few years now starting with the earliest instances but mostly with Connectivism08. Each one has been an excellent learning experience no matter what level of attention I was able to pay.  It is an amazing way to get to meet with people with similar interests and to participate in all sorts of activities.

In many past MOOC's  a group would meet in Second Life. Some participants were experienced in SL but many took the opportunity to learn and explore a virtual environment and evaluate it as a part of their personal learning environment and as one that they would like to investigate for use for various education related purposes.

I am offering the use of my space in SL as a meeting place to discuss the weekly topics and as a starting point for further exploration of SL, networking, maybe a little dancing etc.

If you are familiar with SL, the meeting space is at

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madhupak/11/25/65

If you are not familiar with SL you can start here to get set up and there are usually many welcoming avatars to help you get oriented.




1 comment:

Jim Stauffer said...

Looking forward to seeing you again in the two MOOCs. I've registered for them as well and hope to bring along some of my colleagues.