This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Would we do this if we were all together?

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. [...]