Welcome! [Massive Teaching]

From the "Instructor Log" section of Teaching goes massive: new skills required
by Paul-Olivier Dehaye
See
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/pr8ZtLXODg
and
http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2014/07/09/congrats-to-paul-olivier-dehaye-massiveteaching/

Hi, I'm Paul-Olivier Dehaye, professor of
mathematics at the University of Zürich.

This course is called Massive Teaching.

It's a course about MOOCs.

MOOCs in themselves are quite
controversial,

especially as far as pedagogy is
concerned.

In this course in the next three weeks, I
want to give you some background

about MOOCs but also widen this debate

to include technology and business aspects
of MOOCs.

Like many other MOOCs, this MOOCs [sic] will be
based around videos

and some text surrounding those videos,
including links to other references.

Unlike other MOOCs, this MOOCs [sic] will try to
be really

interactive, and include a component
coming from the students themselves.

For these reasons I'll hold regular office
hours almost

everyday and the MOOC will also include an
experimental section.

This experimental section is meant to
question

the role of the teacher, as compared to

the students, and try to put as much power
into your hands rather than mine.

For instance, the grading of this course
will be mostly

determined by you, actually, as part of
one of those experiments.

So, if you would like to join me, please
go on and watch the other videos.

I hope you'll learn a lot.

I'm sure I will.