Blogging the Caine: Week Two!
by zunguzungu
As I did last week, I’ve posted my reading of this week’s story over at the New Inquiry. You can and should read Billy Kahora’s fine “Urban Zoning,” here, in .pdf form. And in addition to my post, please check out the other fine bloggers writing about “Urban Zoning” (I’ll update this list as more come in):
1) The xMOOC movement cueasd a level of mania, hysteria and irrational decision-making by numerous educators in 2012.a0 It also sparked controversy, discussion, change—just what is needed to address the challenges facing education. Audrey Watters of Hack Education wrote a stellar summary, the Year of the MOOC, chronicling developments over the entire year. From another perspective, Tony Bates wrote a thoughtful piece, Why MOOCs?’ in his year-end post Online learning in 2012: a retrospective.a0