Dramatically reduce complexity (Kasanoff and Hinshaw).
Already underway is the reduction of the huge number of tertiary qualifications we have in this country (NZ). It must have been really painful for some people to give up their babies, and undoubtedly some niche students will miss out, but did it not have to be? Next we need to get to a point where tutors aren't constantly re-writing the materials. Perhaps they could use software to provide personal annotations to existing bodies of material in one-tenth of the time. MOOCS reduce complexity in one way (students access the course in their own time and place and on their own device) but increase complexity another way (by studying with a number of different institutions and individual professors on a number of different platforms). My masters thesis may have been titled "Student-user modeling in connectivist environments", but I don't know that I'm very much nearer to solving the thousand and one problems connectionism and mobility create in the context of accreditation.
"Anyway, what happened to social constructionism? Let the students generate their own materials. Then all you have to do is list the learning outcomes." I hope any readers don't take that too literally :-) of course there has to be some scaffolding.
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