I realize I’m kicking a gift horse in the teeth (not to mention mixing metaphors in mid-stream), but would it be too much trouble to release online courses free of the typographical errors and other mistakes that professors wouldn’t tolerate coming from their students? I appreciate that many MOOCs are put together quickly by teams […]
Interview with David Cox, Creator of HarvardX’s Fundamentals of Neuroscience MOOC
On this week’s podcast, I interview David Cox, Harvard Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Computer Science and the man behind MCB80x, a new HarvardX MOOC on the fundamentals of neuroscience. MCB80x starts next month, but buzz about the course has been growing, especially given Professor Cox’s plans to introduce new ways of interacting […]
MOOCs and Crowdsourcing
I recently finished reading this nifty little book on the subject of crowdsourcing. The term was first created by Jeff Howe in Wired Magazine who used it to describe a series of projects and strategies that involve lots of people pooling their sense organs, intelligence, wisdom, imagination or unused computer cycles to some type of […]
Welcome MOOCs Forum
I was recently told that MOOC news will be arriving rapidly and furiously this fall, and I’ll try to keep up with communication and analysis of any major developments during this period. Earlier this week, I talked about the significance of the new edX-Google partnership MOOC.org and yesterday I got to see a copy of […]
MOOCs – Is the Sky Falling?
The latest version of the “Glass-Half-Empty” critique of MOOCs focuses on recent pull-backs of attempts to make massive online courses count towards official college credit. As this story highlights, legislation submitted that would require colleges to accept MOOC credentials in California and Florida has been quietly shelved. And programs designed to eliminate hurdles that were […]
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