Simultaneous with a new semester starting in brick-and-mortar College-land we’re seeing new MOOC courses begin, coupled with a post-summer reboot of debates from earlier in the year regarding the plusses and minuses of massive online learning. Given that MOOCs still seem to be stuck between the Peak of Inflated Expectations and the Trough of Disillusionment […]
MOOC, Learn, Repeat?
I recently received an invitation to relive the experiences of taking one of my favorite MOOC classes, HarvardX’s Ancient Greek Hero, for a second time. During this interview, the team behind the course talked about their hope that people who had completed Greek Hero might want to participate for a second time, highlighting the fact […]
Self Curation
Last month, I talked about an Existentialism class offered by Saylor.org that is built from free material (iTunes U lectures, public domain readings, etc.) organized by a guiding hand into a course that can be described as curated, rather than produced and packaged like your standard MOOC. And because of the dearth of new MOOC […]
Welcome to Leiter Reports Readers
Well that sudden spike in traffic combined with a flood of interesting comments and contact notes related to a philosophy piece can mean only one thing: a mention in Leiter Reports, the heavily read and always interesting blog of Brian Leiter, Director at the Center of Law, Philosophy and Human Values at the University of […]
Interview with Alison Farmer and Matthew Grant from Aquent Gymnasium
As promised yesterday, today’s podcast interview is with the people behind the newest MOOC provider on the block: Gymnasium from Aquent, one of the world’s leading staffing firms specializing in placing creative professionals. In addition to telling us about why a staffing firm decided to get into the MOOC game, today’s guests, Alison Farmer and […]
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