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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="font: 14px/21px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #3b3b3b; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; padding-top: 10px; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em;">Steve Kolowich reports this morning on a new study of MOOC participation in Forums that suggests about 90% don't participate except by lurking---but those who do, and even better, those who actually engage in face to face conversations about the content of their MOOC courses, do much better on the tests than those who do not:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="color: #0071b3; text-decoration: none;" href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/mooc-students-who-got-offline-help-scored-higher-study-finds/44111">http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/mooc-students-who-got-offline-hel...</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is great news for all of us who believe in connected learning, where participation is important. It reminds everyone that participation is not "natural" or "easy" (even face to face) but that it matters.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em;">What I like best about MOOCs is how much the reassert (I know this seems counterintuitive so bear with me) the importance of higher education. The last three decades has seen not only progressive defunding of higher ed but a rhetoric that we don't need it....it turns out that the world is (a) clamoring for an opportunity to learn (b) that face to face learning still matters and that (c ) the majority of us online are lurkers and that is ALSO true of the majority, the research shows, in a classroom. So a great face to face teacher also must learn from this to find ways for ENGAGED individual and peer-to-peer participation, as true for our classrooms as it is for online learning....</p>
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<p><span style="font: 14px/21px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #3b3b3b; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">- See more at: <a href="http://edf.stanford.edu/readings/mooc-research-underscores-importance-engaged-participation#sthash.i3JeVwrw.dpuf">http://edf.stanford.edu/readings/mooc-research-underscores-importance-engaged-participation#sthash.i3JeVwrw.dpuf</a></span></p>