Would we do this introductory activity if all 1000 of us were together in a
conference hall?
I suspect not, so why do it online? I would guess that many of the reasons
for not doing this in the physical world also apply to the digital world.
The start of this course is depressingly similar to a MOOC I enrolled on a
few years ago with Stephen Downes and George Siemens where many people
switched off before they ever got turned on. [...]
This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.