EconoMOOC

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Why should we Learn Economics in Public?

 * //**For the world**// - A chance to get to grips with the basics of the [science or art? not sure] of economics, to begin to understand the debates and concepts that currently shape every aspect of our lives. It is a chance to share our learning and our understanding, to ask questions, present our research and opinions, to be drawn in to the language and rhythm of economics.
 * //**For the class**// - A chance to learn alongside any number of extra students/teachers, all over the world, contributing perspectives and experiences outside of what the classroom can offer. Open learning can offer opportunities, resources and enthusiasm, and an introducing to the world-wide scope of economics to the class, demonstrating the way it touches so many lives in different ways.

====In striving to support an engaging and personalized course of study in Economics, Mr. Lloyd, with the aid of [|Mr. Jackson], is attempting to create a means by which the learning in room 121 can share in a web-based, collaborative and connected study of economic theory and application. We will be connecting our class learning to the #EconoMooc concept, which is [|guided (according to Wikipedia) by the following principles]:====
 * ===The first principle is aggregation. The whole point of a MOOC is to provide a starting point for a massive amount of content to be produced in different places online, which is later aggregated as a newsletter or a web page accessible to participants on a regular basis. This is in contrast to traditional courses, where the content is prepared ahead of time.===
 * ===The second principle is [|remixing], that is, associating materials created within the course with each other and with materials elsewhere.===
 * ===The third principle is re-purposing of aggregated and remixed materials to suit goals of each participant.===
 * ===The fourth principle is feeding forward, that is, sharing of re-purposed ideas and content with other participants and the rest of the world.===

====As a means of engaging with the prescribed course material, our class will be creating learning resources and artifacts of the topics covered on a regular basis and sharing them on this wiki and other places on the web.====

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