I have not posted for a while. But these questions intrigued me:
How would you redesign open online courses, if you could? What should I do to improve this course? (Don't be bashful - I want to make this course as good as I can!)
Being an instructional designer, redesigning a course to be an open online course is an interesting thought. I would have to immerse myself in a course re-design to really come up with the answer, but I did like saylor.org layout of their free courses.
Besides just listing readings or videos, they asked you to journal, reflect, and answer questions. It was more than just a multiple choice quiz. I would add these higher level thinking questions to my open online course.
The only thing lacking from this course as well as the open online courses I viewed was a space for community. David encouraged us to blog and tweet, but I really like the discussion board inside a course to build the community. An example of a community I like is the Educause LinkedIn group. There are many interesting conversations where we learn from each other.
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