The Online Educator: People and Pedagogy by Open University (Week 1)
This time, I am joining MOOC The Online Educator: People and Pedagogy which is offered by Open University and this MOOC course can be found in the FutureLearn website. This MOOC is divided into four weeks. It is about disruption and design, innovation and accessibility, evidence and ethics, and the last is about the importance of online identity for educators. In this occasion, I will write my summary of what I learn in the first week. The first week is clustered into three categories and those are the myth, hype, and reality in online education, put people first, and from people to pedagogy. As we know that there are some changes in education and there is also the evolution in higher education all over the world. There are more opportunities for students to learn, such as gamification, social and international experiences. Institutions also must be attentive to faculty autonomy and students agency, to ensure that data and technology complement human judgment and personal experienc