Today we are joined by Tim Mauri, Marketing Manager for US Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery at Ethicon, Inc., a Johnson and Johnson company. Tim is one of the people behind Ethicon’s experiment in online learning that involves releasing a course for medical specialists using the edX platform. And on today’s show, we talk about the course, […]
Archives for March 2014
MOOC Infographics
Every few weeks, someone seems to reach out and let me know about an interesting MOOC infographic that highlights important information (facts, stats, etc.) regarding some aspect of massive open online learning. I’ve let them collect, waiting for a day when other obligations takes precedent over generating new material for the blog. And with tomorrow’s […]
DML Research Hub – Not Just MOOCs
Well it was a great time at last week’s Digital Media and Learning/ DML Research Hub conference in Boston. Not only did I run into one of my professors at the event (Pia Sörensen from edX’s Science and Cooking), but I also had the chance to hang out (albeit too briefly) with Jim Groom, the […]
Slacking
A funny thing happened as I attempted to turn from a fanatic to a leisurely learner. My original thought was that once I was done taking eight courses every three months as part of last year’s Degree of Freedom project, I would still continue to take a couple of courses at leisure, with time now […]
The MOOCLaughlin Group
When it becomes made available, I’m planning to post footage of talks and presentations I’ve participated in, starting with the video below of a discussion that took place a couple of weekends ago during MIT’s 2014 Tech Conference. This was a panel discussion entitled “Disrupting Education,” although the disruption we all focused on begins with M […]