{"id":1529,"date":"2013-11-03T16:12:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T00:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2013-11-03T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T00:21:21","slug":"the-future-of-storytelling-storymooc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/the-future-of-storytelling-storymooc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of StoryTelling #StoryMOOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 4px 8px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net\/hprofile-ak-prn1\/s160x160\/541834_208100989364946_1305150625_a.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/>I&#8217;m enrolled in the MOOC <a title=\"The Future of Storytelling MOOC\" href=\"https:\/\/iversity.org\/my\/courses\/the-future-of-storytelling\/lesson_units\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Future of StoryTelling&#8221;<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hashtags.org\/analytics\/storymooc\/\" target=\"_blank\">#StoryMOOC<\/a>, iVersity.com).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Massive Open Online Course provides a foundation in the principles of the formats and methods of fictional storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons this online course attracted me are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>The topic interests me:<\/strong> I&#8217;m beginning to write again, and I want to learn more&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The method of access interests me:<\/strong> I work in eLearning, and using a new Learning Management System is fun and educational in itself.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s largely <strong>self-paced<\/strong>, and absolutely <strong>free<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The course is organized into Chapters, each containing a number of Units of instruction. The format of each Unit is the same: each unit contains one brief video presentation (usually 10-12 minutes in length) where the host introduces the Unit topic, and provides examples, animation, or brief explanations from famous works of fiction or professional writers or storytellers.<\/p>\n<p>Adjacent to each video \u00a0is a tiny, one or two question quiz (often multiple-choice) which you must answer correctly to &#8220;pass&#8221; the Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Below the video and quiz are links to optional further readings, references to articles or books, or other supporting videos. It doesn&#8217;t get much easier than that. I think this course is a bit too easy so far, but it is also very well-designed, nice to look at, and easy to use. The videos are extremely professionally-made and fun to watch. So far, the course has been a very enjoyable experience.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this course has over 65,000 enrollees from all over the world, and (with the exception of a technical problem in Unit 2 of Chapter 1) seems to be well-liked by its users.<\/p>\n<p>My only concern is the &#8220;apparent&#8221; level of interactions online in the course&#8217;s discussion forums. I say &#8220;apparent&#8221; because in my opinion, the discussion forums in the iVersity MOOC platform don&#8217;t really seem to adequately show the amount of interaction between students, and I don&#8217;t get an obvious sense that the Instructors are online and available.<\/p>\n<p>This may be unfair of me, as I admit that I haven&#8217;t spent much time in the forums for this course, but in my memory of taking a different MOOC hosted in Coursera (&#8220;eLearning and Digital Cultures&#8221;), the Instructors seemed to have a more obvious presence online in the course&#8217;s discussion boards, and in monthly Google Hangout sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Having said all that, it looks like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hashtags.org\/analytics\/storymooc\/\" target=\"_blank\">#StoryMOOC<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is very active on Twitter, and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheFutureOfStorytellingMooc\" target=\"_blank\">a healthy Facebook presence<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really looking forward to taking the rest of this MOOC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>I&#8217;m enrolled in the MOOC &#8220;The Future of StoryTelling&#8221; (#StoryMOOC, iVersity.com). This Massive Open Online Course provides a foundation in the principles of the formats and methods of fictional storytelling. The reasons this online&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,11,9,18,17],"tags":[49,42,45,50],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-interdisciplinary","category-learning","category-media","category-process","tag-storymooc","tag-education","tag-mooc","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}