MOOC newbie

Well, here I am. MOOCing. Is MOOC a verb? Is the course I'm doing a MOOC at all?

Let's back up a bit. I've just started an online course from the Open University on Open Education. Rather more technically, it's called H817, but that sounds so impersonal. And the first task is to set up a blog (check), write my first post (nearly done), and tag it with H817. Unclear how to do that at the moment, but working on it.

Let's back up a bit more. Who am I, and why am I doing an online course? It's all connected to my job - I'm an analyst at a boutique research and advisory firm working with the information industry. I specialise in education, so I work mostly with educational publishers and other bodies interested in what they're doing, like banks, industry associations, and technology companies. And one of the areas I cover as part of my analysis is open education - hence my choice of course. I've also just done a report on MOOCs, and felt I needed to get more of a student perspective on what it's like to do a MOOC. Even though Martin Weller felt compelled to question whether this was a MOOC. I guess we'll see depending on the number of students.

So, that's me, and that's why I'm here. Now, off to learn more about tagging a blog post.....will labels do the trick? Sigh.....