ABSTRACT
Protests, palace coups, and scandals involving vandalism and cheating students marked the academic year 2013. Interestingly, this pushback was not due to worldwide politics at the government level; instead it was in resistance to massive open online courses (MOOCs). A Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) is a collaborative project motivated by feminist pedagogical insights. FemTechNet's DOCC forges connections between faculty and students rather than increasing individualism and isolation, and recognizes connection as a condition with politically transformative potential. In many ways, the DOCC reverses the logic of the MOOC. Rather than using digital technologies to increase the teacher-to-student ratio, a DOCC model operates through a network that seeks to subvert streamlined education. The DOCC's online and open to the public Town Hall meetings, Speaker's Bureau, Open Online Office Hours (OOOH), and FemTechNet Digest on Flipboard are all community engagement components now underway with pathways for self-directed learners provided on the FemTechNet website.
