ICT in the Primary Classroom MOOC
I've just joined the Coursera MOOC ICT in the Primary Classroom: Transforming children's learning across the curriculum and am going to use this blog to reflect on the content as I follow the course. The lead tutor on the course is Diana Laurillard , who I saw give an excellent plenary at the IATEFL Conference in Glasgow in 2012 on ' Supporting the Teacher as Innovative Learning Designer ' (see video recording of her plenary below). It's the first week of the course, and people are introducing themselves in the forum - already I've come across some familiar faces and have reconnected with some people from the past as well as making some interesting new connections. There's been a lot of criticism of MOOCs (e.g. here and here and here ) by many people who point to the fact that few people who sign up for them actually finish the course and get the certificate. I think this is missing the point - I am not taking the course to necessarily co