Coyote Creates the MOOC

By autumm393. Somehow last night I got caught up in this #MOOCMOOC thing through twitter. The MOOC is only open for one day and it is a meta MOOC of sorts in that it is a MOOC that is looking at and defining MOOCs and their processes.  It is really changing some of my ideas about what a MOOC is and what it means to MOOCify a course. Through this interaction I began thinking of MOOC's in terms of the trickster archetype in the way that they disrupt things and make a bit of a nuisance of themselves but also have this immense creative power.  I have done some very surface level study of the trickster archetype and Coyote is one of my favorite tricksters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster. Disclaimers: I have never written a Coyote myth before.  I have only participated in a few MOOCs.
In the spirit of MOOCs - If you love, hate, or just see something missing from this myth and would like to change it, an open editable google doc of it exists here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17rrSm6i_st8EVdPkBHmxyGIJ2DAXzjabtJHf... Read more...