{"id":712,"date":"2020-05-02T09:02:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T16:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0115\/?p=712"},"modified":"2020-05-02T09:04:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T16:04:07","slug":"critical-digital-pedagogy-my-experience-of-moocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0115\/critical-digital-pedagogy-my-experience-of-moocs\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical digital pedagogy & my experience with MOOCs"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Photo by Scott Webb<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a>]\n

\u00a0“To speak a true word is to transform the world”<\/p>\n

(Freire, 1970).<\/p>\n

For our critical inquiry team assignment, my team explores the topic of the massive open online course(s) (MOOCs) and, specifically, barriers to access and participation inequities often widely present in MOOCs despite the claim to be “open” and “massive”, i.e. accessible to everyone. The learning event we have decided to explore is a course by Coursera: Mind Control: Managing Your Mental Health During COVID-19<\/a>, as a lot of people struggle with different mental health issues during the isolation.<\/p>\n

In my personal experience with MOOCs, I have had a chance to experiment with a few different types of MOOCs, such as Coursera<\/a>, Canvas<\/a>, EdX.<\/a> In fact, I am registered in a few courses: Research Data Management for Librarians<\/a>, Introduction to Digital Humanities course,<\/a> as well as a course on systematic review and meta-analysis<\/a>. I guess I can characterize myself as a “learning hobbyist”, even though these courses often fall on the back burner in my busy life. I feel grateful for having a privilege to have access to these courses, however many others might not.\u00a0 My experience with these MOOCs, made me question the role of students in the process and what pedagogical approaches individual MOOCs propagate, as “MOOC has become an engine for poorly considered pedagogy” \u00a0which unfortunately fell into “capitalization of education and its dialogues” (Morris, & Stommel, 2017).<\/p>\n

Following this thinking, I decided to explore the topic of critical digital pedagogy for my critical inquiry and its application in the Information Literacy programs.\u00a0 Critical pedagogy, based on the work of Paulo Freire (1970), Pedagogy of the oppressed<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>is focused on a problem-solving education, and thus, the empowerment of a student, rather than the banking model of education. In the digital culture, critical pedagogy is seeking human connectivity through digital agency and democratic participation (Morris & Stommel, 2018).<\/p>\n

When applied to information literacy instruction, critical information literacy, which draws on critical pedagogy framework, seeks “to raise the critical consciousness of learners” (Branch, 2019). Thus, in my critical inquiry, I want to explore the concept of critical information literacy in the digital setting and understand its implication to the way librarians teach information literacy and what student-centred approaches can facilitate this teaching.<\/p>\n

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Branch, N. A. (2019). Illuminating social justice in the Framework: Transformative methodology, concept mapping, and learning outcomes development for Critical Information Literacy. Communications in Information Literacy<\/i>, 13<\/i>(1), 4\u201322. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15760\/comminfolit.2019.13.1.2<\/a><\/div>\n
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Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed<\/em> . New York: Seabury Press.Retrieved from http:\/\/www.historyisaweapon.com\/defcon2\/pedagogy\/pedagogychapter3.html<\/div>\n
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Morris, S. M., & Stommel, J. (2017). Open education as resistance: MOOCs and critical digital pedagogy. In MOOCs and Their Afterlives<\/i>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. doi:10.7208\/chicago\/9780226469591.003.0012<\/div>\n
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Morris, S. M., & Stommel, J. (2018). An Urgency of teachers<\/i>. Hybrid Pedagogy Inc. Retrieved from https:\/\/criticaldigitalpedagogy.pressbooks.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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