MOOCs, Milkshakes and Clay Shirky's book 'Cognitive Surplus' | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

I’m a big fan of professor and writer Clay Shirky.The insights he shares about digital culture via his writings are sharp and thoughtful. I read Shirky’sHere Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizers last year and found it relevant and instructive despite its publication date of 2008. On its heels is Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers Collaboraters(2010), which is accurate not only in the predictions made of how society behaves today with our abundance of time, connectivity and tech tools, but of most value was how it changed my views about MOOCs’ role in education.