When Is a MOOC Not a MOOC?

By Cathy Davidson. Next semester I'm teaching the boldest, most innovative, most complicated course I've ever taught, ISIS 640, "The History and Future of Higher Education":    http://bit.ly/GQqu1d  What started as a MOOC on that topic has become an open-learning collaborative peer-grading extravaganza.  Why?  Because words like "flipping" make it seem as if it is easy to teach with technology.  it is not.  It is important, it can be creative and useful, but it is extremely labor intensive and, as lackadaisacal a job as we've sometimes done training graduate students to teach for the traditional classroom, we've just barely touched the surface of the deep thinking, practice, methods, and ideas of teaching with, through, by, for, and about technology in a critical, creative, interactive, empowering, and significant way. More...