While the notion of MOOCs and other forms of free learning providing an alternative to a traditional (and expensive) college education will continue to draw headlines, these new tools are already playing role (and generating controversy) based on their use inside the physical classroom. For instance, according to Sanjay Sarma, Director of MITx and MIT’s […]
Couple of Announcements
Just a few quick announcements today since I’m off to MIT’s Learning International Network’s Consortium conference shortly where I’ll be hearing how educators across the world are responding to the challenges and opportunities presented by MOOCs and other forms of free learning. This will serve as the backdrop for the theme of the week which […]
Interview with the edX/HarvardX Greek Hero MOOC Team
This week, we’re joined by the team behind The Ancient Greek Hero, one of Harvard’s longest-running classes which has become one of the most talked about MOOCs on the Internet. Students enrolled in this edX class will recognize Professor Greg Nagy and his colleagues Leonard Muellner, Claudia Filos and Jeff Emanuel, a subset of a […]
MOOCs – How Far We’ve Come
It occurred to me that some of the things I’ve written regarding the shortcomings or limitations of MOOCs might look like a form of ingratitude. After all, institutions around the world are paying tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to put their courses up on the web for free. Companies like Coursera, edX and […]
Measuring MOOC Learning
Given the response I could expect if I proposed to a major publication my desire to write a 300-part series on a single subject (even one as important as the revolution now underway in online learning), I’m a big fan of what blogs allow individuals to accomplish on their own. That said, their reverse chronological […]
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