So what would you consider a large class? 50 students? 100 students? 200 students? More?
How about 100,00 students?
Algong with mad student-management ideas, this video offers (somewhat similar to yesterday's discussion of Olds College) an example of one groups' approach to online learning.
What I wondered most about when watching the video was the online community - specifically whether the design of this course offered "benefits that online communication can bring to participants, from daily camaradarie to emotional support and real aid in time of crisis" (Rhingold, 1993 as paraphrased in Bruckman, 2008). I suspect that this course - as presented - still has work to do in this area, but feel the designers themselves are very aware of this also.
Another area of interest was that the course had deadlines. To have deadline or not to have deadlines is a topic that often arises when discussion online courses - Peter Norvig makes an excellent case for the need of deadlines.
Enjoy!
REFERENCE
Bruckman, A. (2008) Learning in Online Communities. The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences. New York: Cambridge.
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