Fear Factor: e-Learning Edition 4
Posted on: April 12, 2020
I challenged my audience in 2013 with a series of slides led by the one above. My intent then was to provide a fourth element in a loose but critical scaffold for thinking about MOOCs.
Back then, I asked them if adopting platforms like Coursera would serve their underserved (they evidence then was that it would not). I challenged them to ask difficult questions like: What might the consequences be if they did not rely on evidence-based planning and approaches?
Today I position this questioning element in the context of emergency remote teaching. How do we respond to the fear of asking and getting answers to the following questions?
- What mistakes did we make and what did we learn from them?
- Why were we not better prepared? How might we be better prepared?
- How do we level up our collective capacity towards seamless learning?
The last question might be informed with this useful framework from Scott McLeod.
The other questions require a brutal and honest look at ourselves. Will we remember enough and be brave enough to do that when we are on the other side of the COVID-19 curve?
Another dot in the blogosphere? 
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