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Offline Connectivism
In 2008, when discussing the critical role of technology in the existence of a Connectivist learning environment, Stephen commented: Take the steam engine, for example. It works through a process of...
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MOOCs are not books
A startling post by Bernard Fryshman – Books Are MOOCs, Too, leaves me with conflicting thoughts. If he is talking about xMOOCs, I could perhaps agree to a level. If he is talking about cMOOCs, I...
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The Outcomes of our Educational Systems
Does a particular type of education system tend to produce the same outcome irrespective of the underlying environment? Or is it that the underlying social, economic and political environment will...
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MOOCs and the Future of Indian Higher Education – FICCI HES 2013
The 2013 FICCI Higher Education Summit was held on Nov 13 and 14, 2013. I, along with Prof. B N Jain (Vice Chancellor, BITS) and Mohan Kannegal (Manipal Global Education), conducted a master class on...
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MOOCs are ecologies not episodes
There are two ways one could think of the life-cycle of a MOOC. MOOCs could be thought of as one-time and episodic. They could also be thought of as ecologies, sites or environments for continual...
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Rhizo14 Week 3: Democratizing Uncertainty
Dave Cormier’s MOOC on P2PU, Rhizomatic Learning, in week 3 is focusing on the topic Embracing Uncertainty. He says: At the heart of the rhizome is a very messy network, one where not all the dots...
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Design of Complex Learning Environments
This year I will focus my efforts on the design of learning environments that are complex – adaptive, emergent, self-organizing, chaotic and personal. As a project description at TU Delft states: In...
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#Rhizo14 Week 4: Are books making us stupid?
Bernard Fryshman wrote a post titled MOOCs are Books, too. I responded saying it depends on whether it is an xMOOC you are talking about or a cMOOC, amongst other humble assertions that “MOOCs are not...
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#Rhizo14 Community not curriculum and the end is near
Before I begin (and I am going to miss the hangout again as it will be at 3 AM India time), I think Dave rocked again in #rhizo14. Way to go Dave! Dave is our Elvis I am conflicted when I think about...
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The hard problems in eLearning
There are some key challenges that we are facing in eLearning today. And I am beginning to think that these are pretty much invariant to scale. I am beginning to think that perhaps many of them happen...
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The Learning Revolution is Here
I didn’t know it at that time, having been born just a few months later, that the revolutionary Open University, UK was born in January, 1971 with 25000 students. Of course, my parents didn’t know that...
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Blended Learning in India
There are many positives happening in EdTech in India. A government led mission called the National Mission on Education using ICT (NMEICT) has created massive amounts of content for engineering, arts...
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India MOOCs and eLibrary
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and OERs have captured the imagination of our polity. The new Government’s election manifesto clearly specifies MOOCs, although not under school or higher...
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xMOOCs and cMOOCs – do we even care?
First published by EDU Tech on 24th July, 2014 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are an exciting new development in online education. In this article, Viplav Baxi explores the origins of MOOCs, their...
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A Strategic Inflection Point for Indian Education
I think we are at an inflection point in online education in India the way Andy Grove from Intel had nicely framed in his book, Only the Paranoid Survive. Andrew writes of how a 10X change in any one...
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On Teacher’s Day
There is a teacher in everyone of us. It is useful to acknowledge that a whole lot of things are learnt without someone actually teaching us, and that perhaps someone is right now learning from us...
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Rethinking Learning Environments and Class
Do you go to the football field to learn music? Or to the art gallery to learn fencing? Or to a library to learn oratory? You don’t. However, irrespective of whether you are studying history,...
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Faculty shortage or learner shortage?
People keep on going on about there being so much shortage of good quality faculty. That, they bemoan, is the most important factor behind the problems that we face in K12 or Higher Ed today. It is...
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#MOOConMOOCs – Sir John Daniel on MOOCs
The interesting MOOC on MOOCs conducted by Dr. T V Prabhakar from IIT Kanpur and Dr V Balaji from Commonwealth of Learning is in week 3. The theme itself is reminiscent of the CCK MOOCs, which did a...
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Is the classroom a machine?
In a Big Think article, Why Technology Won’t Save an Inefficient Education System, with Dr. Madhav Chavan, and in several other similarly argued contributions, particularly like the ones from Sir Ken...
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MOOCs have arrived…what next?
First published in The Souvenir, FICCI Higher Education Summit 2014 Viplav Baxi makes the case that MOOCs have arrived in India. Now is the time to reflect on what pitfalls we should avoid and how we...
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Whither Indian MOOCs?
Today, India is at an important crossroad when it comes to MOOCs. Much has been written and spoken about the potential of MOOCs in this country. Unfortunately, most of the conversation has been around...
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A school without textbooks
Not without books. Books are great. I mean textbooks as they are academi-factured (if that can be a word to denote academic manufacturing) and used now. The written word that becomes the gospel truth...
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EdTechNext – Be the change
My presentation at the Technology in Higher Education at the edTechNext conference today. Filed under: 3.0, Connectivism, elearning 2.0 Tagged: change, mooc
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CBSE Open Text Based Assessments – Lip Service or Silver Bullet
The Open Text-based Assessment or OTBA was also notified on May 31, 2013 by the Central Board of Secondary Education. Applicable to select subjects in Class IX and XI, this was made a mandatory...
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#rhizo15 Week Two – Counting networks
A rather belated post on #rhizo15 week 2! How do we count or measure learning in our networks or learning rhizomatically? How do we begin to “grade Dave”? “Counting” evolution of our learning networks...
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#rhizo15 Week 5 Communities are the same
Dave Cormier asks many interesting questions in his challenge for Week 5 of Rhizomatic Learning. He asks: This week take a critical look at the rhizomatic approach. Are we just replacing one authority...
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#Rhizo15 Week 6 The Practical Guide to Rhizomatic Learning
A brief introduction Rhizomatic Learning is an important way to think about learning and teaching. It describes a learning experience where learning itself is organic and emergent, deeply driven by...
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Did someone just learn?
Most of our education system is geared towards a particular conception of a student and her specific way of learning. Let’s face it. We give our children the same amount of time to learn every day. It...
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I wrote this in 2011 but it seems almost current in terms of relevance. Some links may not work. Introduction Education has morphed across centuries of foundational thought and practice on what is...
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