Publications and Research
Document Type
Book Chapter or Section
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
Drawing on experiences with the JustPublics@365 participatory open online course, or POOC, this chapter discusses the politics and possibilities of open access pedagogy and the broader engagement with communities that academics might achieve. We situated the POOC in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood and to use the course to form an academic-community partnership. Rather than replicate the broadcast model employed by many MOOCs, in which an instructor delivers education to a broad audience of otherwise disconnected students, the POOC sought to engage participants through open site-based and online experiences, including lectures and class readings posted openly for any member of the public to reach.
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Comments
This work was originally published in "MOOCs and Their Afterlives: Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education," edited by E.M. Losh (University of Chicago Press).