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By chris, September 19, 2011 5:37 pm

Reasons I’m “participating”¹ in the #Change11 MOOC:

• Because MOOC sounds kind of like “kook”²
• Because I’m already massive so I might as well figure out how to be open³
• Because MOOCs are the new Mauve and
• Because all the kool kids are doing it⁴
• Because the ‘C’ in MOOC could stand for Conference or Constellation or Collective but not Corporation
• Because things that people do or make but have no definition of are usually interesting things for me⁵
• Because I can’t get enough of those short Canadians⁶
• Because I need evidence that GeorgeDave are not a single intellectual organism
• Because it’s 36 freaking weeks long, which is kind of like The Running Man⁷ of education
• Because someday I hope to know what Connectivism actually is
• Because my Erdős number with many of the participants is– and I hope with many other will become– 1⁸
• Because this counts as participation⁹

1. you must interpret this term broadly as you might also interpret things like how I “fold” origami, “write” poems, and “compose” lists like this in threes… which is to say I kind of do things that slightly resemble those activities [↩]
2. or “cookie,” which is almost as good. [↩]
3. in a good way [↩]
4. yo [↩]
5. cf. pornography, critical thinking, culture, Connectivism, free verse [↩]
6. to be fair, Stephen isn’t really short, but George and Dave really bring the average down [↩]
7. or Death Run [↩]
8. sadly my Erdős–Bacon number is essentially infinity [↩]
9. but Mr. Lott, how do you assess that? [↩]