Comments on: ITOE: Comparing Two OpenCourseWare Styles http://mfeldstein.com/itoe-comparing-two-opencourseware-styles/ What We Are Learning About Online Learning...Online Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: SaraJoy Pond http://mfeldstein.com/itoe-comparing-two-opencourseware-styles/#comment-1363 SaraJoy Pond Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:13:23 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/?p=932#comment-1363 I like this line: "The branding implications are that MIT appears to provide you with high quality adventure learning experiences on a wide range of really interesting topics, while CMU appears to teach you how to turn your brain into a highly versatile power tool." But I think (and you also bring this out) that it's important to note that MIT OCW doesn't provide, or even claim to provide, that high-quality adventure learning experience. You still have to pay $50K/year for that. I don't know that anyone's evaluated whether OLI is actually transforming brains into 10-in-one power tools or not... Seems like an important question to address. @David: You said in class today that MIT is targeted for instructors/educators. Its structure and content organization would definitely support the proposition--but less than 1/4 of its users are educators... a commercial enterprise would either have to change its market strategy or change its product...and fast. I like this line: “The branding implications are that MIT appears to provide you with high quality adventure learning experiences on a wide range of really interesting topics, while CMU appears to teach you how to turn your brain into a highly versatile power tool.” But I think (and you also bring this out) that it’s important to note that MIT OCW doesn’t provide, or even claim to provide, that high-quality adventure learning experience. You still have to pay $50K/year for that. I don’t know that anyone’s evaluated whether OLI is actually transforming brains into 10-in-one power tools or not… Seems like an important question to address.

@David: You said in class today that MIT is targeted for instructors/educators. Its structure and content organization would definitely support the proposition–but less than 1/4 of its users are educators… a commercial enterprise would either have to change its market strategy or change its product…and fast.

]]> By: David Wiley http://mfeldstein.com/itoe-comparing-two-opencourseware-styles/#comment-1362 David Wiley Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:26:51 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/?p=932#comment-1362 They're really target at very different user groups who will want to make very different uses of them. As you say, it's really not possible to judge them "generally" or "globally" in comparison to each other, but helping people figure that out was one of the main goals of this assignment. =) They’re really target at very different user groups who will want to make very different uses of them. As you say, it’s really not possible to judge them “generally” or “globally” in comparison to each other, but helping people figure that out was one of the main goals of this assignment. =)

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