One of things that motivated me to blog about this subject was a recognition that that the conversation about the MOOC phenomenon seemed to be getting ahead of itself, with too much discussion of how MOOCs might replace traditional college informed by too little end-user experience regarding the actual level of learning associated with taking […]
Doing MOOCs Right
Some of the observations I’ve made over the last few weeks with regard to many free classes I’ve been taking being easier to complete than equivalent classes I remember from college needs to be tempered by a couple of critical points. First, not all open classes are equivalent in terms of their mission or required […]
Odds and Ends and Sophomore Year
Starting with some housekeeping: First, welcome all you Boston Globe readers out there. If you’re interested in getting the skinny on this project, you can start by reading my first post which introduced what’s behind this experiment in extreme learning. And anyone who wants to follow my progress can subscribe to the weekly newsletter by […]
MOOC Testing – Final Thoughts
So the good news is that massive courses have the technology and the audience needed to generate massive (or “Big”) data, enough data to give course developers the statistics they need to refine and revise testing so that it more capably screens those who know from those who don’t. And, if combined with some of […]
MOOC Testing and Big Data
I hope I’ve not lost too many people as this week’s series dove into some of the more technical aspects of testing. It’s just that, having spent so many years in both the professional testing and education industries, it struck me how some of the principles of the former could really improve the quality of […]
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