The event of the week has of course been the creation of the set of ethnographic snapshots, and artefacts. I need more time to properly digest the  array of approaches and synthesis here, and comment properly over the course of the next few days. Sian and Jeremy’s comments on Nick’s really great artefact relate to my own MOOC experience, both with respect to the fascination of the analytics of location in terms of participants, the issue of distinguishing between a MOOC’s architecture and ethos, and the way in which technology and culture may ‘cohere’ in terms of participants behaviour,  in a way which is not reducible to the MOOC itself. Jeremy seems to mention the question, ‘What bounds behaviour or attitudes?’. In the case of my MOOC, difference of global location, brought people together (apparently); (unlike what appears to have been Jin, Nick and Clare’s experience), whether it is  truly *global education* as Jeremy, points out I’m not sure, and possibly it is more an interest in a medium and ‘creation’ (of a film) which is the real driver here.

It is possible that without certain characteristics of the NFTS MOOC, or in an entirely different MOOC setting the same events may have occurred, but intuitively, I sense that the NFTS MOOC has such a focus on ‘creation’ (storyboards, story telling, script, scene visualization, and films), which are shared via the third party platforms of Pinterest, Twitter and Youtube, (interestingly though there was not a lot of comment or referencing to these feeds on the Facebook group page). The dynamic of interaction for the film Facebook group, and their community construction was certainly within the terms of a ‘medium’ (film), which of course possesses many aspects of ‘process'; ‘technology’, and cultural ideas (notions of being) which exist outside of the MOOC per say. It was interesting to see people getting to grips with digital tools, which are ‘really fabric’ in terms of media production (collaboration), technically, culturally and socially.

All of this is just thoughts, thanks.