MOOCs after five years
Five years ago, I was just starting to prepare a massive open online course (MOOC). That course development would be an 18-month adventure for me.
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A perspective on MOOCs as experimentation
I’ve been meaning to comment on this piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education about MOOCs, by Kevin Werbach: “Dont Call Us Rock Stars”. Werbach has been te...
Textbook troubles
A link from a reader: “‘Required reading’: As textbook prices soar, students try to cope”.
MOOC international enrollment numbers
I just got the first round of statistics on students enrolled in my upcoming MOOC, Human Evolution Past and Future. These date to a few months ago, so don’t ...
How a MOOC can affect the classroom
Duke University evolutionary biologist Mohamed Noor reflects on the way that teaching a MOOC has changed his classroom teaching: “The classroom experience re...
Quote: Stephen Downes on the value of open courses
Stephen Downes, widely recognized as one of the original inventors of the “MOOC” concept, on why courses should be open: “MOOC - The Resurgence of Community ...
MOOCs and disabilities
The Coursera blog today relates a remarkable story: “Not Impossible: The Story of Daniel, a 17 Year Old with Severe Autism & His 6 Completed Coursera Cou...
My open letter to SJSU Philosophy
On Thursday, the Philosophy department of San José State University released an open letter to Michael Sandel, instructor of a Harvard edX MOOC. I reacted to...
Lessons in social justice from MOOCs
The Philosophy department at San Jose State University have written an open letter to Michael Sandel, a Harvard teacher of government and lauded lecturer. Wh...
Paleofuture radio MOOCs
The Chronicle of Higher Ed takes us to a time in the past, when massive radio correspondence courses were the wave of the future, including at my alma mater,...
Paths through MOOCs
I’ve been doing a lot of tracking of massive open online courses, including enrolling in several of them, as research for my upcoming course, “Human Evolutio...
Are MOOCs technical or practical?
All the NY Times columnists will be writing about MOOCs before long, I suspect. Today it was David Brooks’ turn: “The Practical University”. His argument is ...
Massive courses: massive opportunity or massive problem?
Dan Ariely is an economist at Duke University who has been teaching a massive open online course on behavioral economics to 140,000 students, titled “A Begin...
Announcing my MOOC, Human Evolution Past and Future
Note: This post is archived from 2014. The course went great, with more than 40,000 students enrolled from around the world! You can still watch many of the ...
Tribulations of online course approvals
John Thelin writes in Inside Higher Ed about the process of developing online courses: “Professors and Online Learning”.
California's online imposition
This is big education news, from the California legislature: “Measure Seeks Campus Credit For Web Study”.
Binge learning
From Eli Dourado at The mlaut: “Binge Learning is Online Educations Killer App”.
Who does worse in online courses, students or professors?
The Raw Story reports on a new study of 40,000 community college students in Washington state, which concludes that online courses are not as effective as cl...
"Average is over"
Today’s Thomas Friedman column notes the growing craze at major universities for massively open online courses, or MOOCs: “The Professors Big Stage”.
MOOC conversations
An article on the way MOOCs are (or may be) changing university priorities: “What MOOCs Will, Wont, and Might Do”.
Notes from the learning revolution
My University of Wisconsin colleague Kris Olds has been writing about the international dimensions of massively open online courses (MOOCs). A recent entry (...
The importance of rare variants
I was reading an article on massive open online courses (MOOCs) (“MOOCs Assessed, Modestly”), and struck by the final quote: