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.
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.
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...
A link from a reader: “‘Required reading’: As textbook prices soar, students try to cope”.
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 ...
Duke University evolutionary biologist Mohamed Noor reflects on the way that teaching a MOOC has changed his classroom teaching: “The classroom experience re...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
John Thelin writes in Inside Higher Ed about the process of developing online courses: “Professors and Online Learning”.
This is big education news, from the California legislature: “Measure Seeks Campus Credit For Web Study”.
From Eli Dourado at The mlaut: “Binge Learning is Online Educations Killer App”.
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...
Today’s Thomas Friedman column notes the growing craze at major universities for massively open online courses, or MOOCs: “The Professors Big Stage”.
An article on the way MOOCs are (or may be) changing university priorities: “What MOOCs Will, Wont, and Might Do”.
My University of Wisconsin colleague Kris Olds has been writing about the international dimensions of massively open online courses (MOOCs). A recent entry (...
I was reading an article on massive open online courses (MOOCs) (“MOOCs Assessed, Modestly”), and struck by the final quote: