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My Digital Artifact for #edcmooc
I chose Tagul to create word clouds from my weekly posts about the eLearning and Digital Cultures course offered on Coursera by the University of Edinburgh in January 2013.
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Week 4 #edcmooc | I would like to add some more RAM to my brain!
After last week’s focus on how computers seem to be becoming more and more human, we considered efforts to remodel the human in Week 4 of #edcmooc. It is true that in recent years we are hearing about
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Week 3 #edcmooc | Do MOOC’s humanize online courses?
I am not sure that MOOCs humanize the online learning experience. My experience in teaching a for-credit, blended (hybrid) course, BIO 204, convinced me that the online discussion board
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Week 3 #introphil | Does my computer have a mind?
This was a very interesting week for me! We were concerned with the relationship between brains, minds, and computers – something that I have thought about for a long time.
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Week 2 #introphil Gettier Cases | That was a long time in coming!
While listening to the lecture, I was startled to hear about Gettier and Gettier cases and to realize that I had no idea who this famous philosopher was and what his startling achievement had been.
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Week 2 #edcmooc | Will we be buried in a sparkling mound of glass shards?
In Week 2 we are thinking about the future of our technology-driven world. As I started thinking about metaphors, I realized that I had used one in my post for Week 1 #edcmooc.