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I hope that I history doesnt paint me as the “Joe the Plumber” of #massivelearning (or of MOOCs) 😉

It is true that my perspective tends to be the one that people talk about (at least in blogs). Luckily some others have come out to talk about their perspectives through comments on news stories and other people’s blogs (at least if we believe that they were signed up).

I can still see some forums where people are discontent (I can PDF some of them for people who are interested) but this only really represents the people that stayed behind, those who didn’t just unenroll when things became too crazy.

To some extent I am not representative of the learner body in that course. I have a certain position of privilege: I’ve been around MOOCs since 2011, my first few MOOCs included MOOCs by Siemens, Downes and Cormier, I have experimented with most major xMOOC platforms “completing” over 50 MOOCs. While my cMOOC experience has made me a more resilient learner, I can also sniff out some BS. My concern is that less resilient learners, or those new to MOOCs will just consume what happened mindlessly and think that they’ve learned something awesome by watching those 8 videos that Dehaye posted on his course and completing the farce that is the final assignment 🙂