Recently, the popular and edgy (for an airline anyway) JetBlue Air announced a partnership with Coursera that will make ten Coursera MOOCs part of a set of new inflight “Edutainment” options (alongside other content from organizations like National Geographic). Interestingly, only one of the courses on offer (an Introduction to Marketing MOOC from the Wharton […]
MOOC Grading
One of the more challenging aspects of working with a MOOC provider to improve assessments (or, as I prefer to call them: “Active Learning Components”) is what all this assessment (sorry “Active Learning”) is supposed to add up to. After all, the way to improve MOOC quizzes and exams is by applying appropriate elements of […]
Flogging Higher Education – A Response to Eugene Linden
I’ve always been a sucker for tales involving getting rich (sort of) by flogging low-production printed matter to rubes. This interest started when I learned about the early days of the exploitation film industry, during which itinerant showmen would go town to town renting theatres for short screenings of films that promised (but rarely delivered) […]
Ivory Tower – Revisiting the Cost of College Debate
Now that CNN is broadcasting the documentary Ivory Tower (a film I saw in the cinema and reviewed last summer), I wanted to revisit the cost-of-college series I wrote earlier this year so that anyone interested in the questions Ivory Tower raises will have some alternative theories to chew over. Fortunately, I recently discovered a […]
Esprit de Course
Part of the professional test-design experience I’m trying to bring to MOOC development includes the generation of specific learning objectives (tied to overall course goals) that spell out exactly what students should know after being exposed to course materials such as lectures and reading. This type of detailed breakdown will be familiar not just to […]
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