What Kind of Education Do We Want? Making a MOOC Into a Movement #FutureEd

By Cathy Davidson. Well, I am having the odd out-of-body experience of previewing the Coursera MOOC on "The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education)  an hour before the rest of the14,000+ participants can log on.   Actually, the stats suggest that probably only a tiny fraction of that great number who have pre-registered, will actually watch.   But, for the rest of you, especially those watching in activist educational groups--at coffee houses, in classrooms, in seminar rooms, in meeting spaces, in high schools, at one middle school, in a retirement community, and, of course, at the MacDonald's in Otaga, New Zealand--we hope you will let us know what you are thinking, what you are doing, what you are talking about. More...