A misapplication of MOOCs: Critical pedagogy writ massive
Morris, Sean Michael

PublishedNovember 2014
PeriodicalVolume 2017
PublisherDigital Pedagogy Lab

ABSTRACT
On November 21 at the OpenEd Conference in Washington, DC, Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel will present on critical digital pedagogy and MOOCs. This is the second of three articles that inspired that talk. The first, Critical Digital Pedagogy: a Definition, appeared on November 18.

Keywords connectivist MOOC · critical digital pedagogy · critical pedagogy · digital pedagogy · distance learning · MOOC · MOOCification · OpenED · paulo freire · peer review

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