Turning a MOOC Into a Meta-MOOC (Participatory) Experience

By Cathy Davidson. My colleague Kaysi and I spent today working on quizzes for the certificate one can earn from taking my Coursera course on "The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education."   This MOOC is actually a "meta-MOOC" in that we are using this massive platform to engage a worldwide community in a movement on behalf of learning innovations.  Called FutureEd, HASTAC's initiative is led by students and faculty (not corporations), and we're hoping to think together, in a massive way, and with different voices from around the world, about many of the practices, standards, ideas, and institutional models in current education. More...