Digital Delights

It is this certainty of accelerating change that a culture of learning must address.  Brown and Thomas introduce the concept of the collective in conjunction with their observation that teaching doesn't scale.  This is exactly the problem that Siemens has addressed in his theory of connectivism (connectivism, meet collectivism?) and hence that MOOCs are experimental solutions to.  It is understood that two forms of MOOC are emerging. One kind, the cMOOC, is where learning occurs through interaction within the collective, and the other kind, xMOOC, is developing as a means of offering viable courses to thousands at a time.  Both are attempts to scale access to learning when traditional "teaching" fails under the sheer weight of numbers.