Pieces like this one fit a pattern we’ve seen during the second half of this year where negative “backlash” stories have muscled out the educational utopianism attached to earlier media accounts of the MOOC phenomenon. Yet even when listing all the alleged failings of the massive online course, such stories still find it difficult to say […]
Archives for November 2013
How Long Should a MOOC Go On?
I got my biggest Halloween scare right before the sun went down and I logged into my edX account to see what ChinaX, Harvard’s latest edition to their MOOC catalog, would demand of me between now and the end of the year (when I anticipated its conclusion would wrap up my One Year BA). Imagine […]
MOOCs and Grading – Interpreting Obviousity Results
Getting back to the Obviousity scores we looked at a couple of days ago, the lessons to be drawn even from my simple experiment go beyond just reinforcing the need to follow the professional item-writing principles, like those I recommended a few months back. Yes, MOOC developers should avoid true/false questions and do a better […]