We interrupt this week’s Obviousity Experiment to talk about today’s announcement by Coursera of their new Global Learning Hub program. As they describe in this press release, these new Learning Hubs “will offer people around the world physical spaces where they can access the Internet to take a Coursera course, while learning alongside peers in […]
Archives for October 2013
MOOCs and Grading – Obviousity Results
OK, so I ran my Obviousity Index test on several of the classes I’ve taken (not enough for a comprehensive scientific analysis, but enough to inform this conversation). Remember from yesterday that the Obviousity Index is derived from looking at MOOC courses where the final grade is based entirely on how a student performs in […]
MOOCs and Grading – The Obviousity Index
As many readers know, my background in professional test design has left me sensitive to MOOC quizzes and exams that sometimes seem thrown together as afterthoughts. This is because in the best designed courses, instruction and assessment (whether in the form of quizzes, final exams, graded papers and homework assignments) work hand in hand to […]
Day Off
I need to polish off some work on the senior thesis chapter I worked on over the weekend (as well as get this week’s Degree of Freedom Newsletter out – this one reviewing the Great Courses class I just finished up entitled Why Evil Exists). So no other thoughts from me on today’s blog, although […]
Interview with Kyle Courtney – Copyright Advisor for Harvard and HarvardX
This week Degree of Freedom interview is with Kyle Courtney, Copyright Advisor to Harvard University (including HarvardX). As hinted at yesterday, copyright (and other forms of intellectual property law) represent the biggest legal minefield for massive open online education. Infringement that might have once been given a pass in the lecture hall now represents enormous […]
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