Today’s interview is with Cathy Davidson, John Hope Franklin Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University, author of Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn, and the professor behind the upcoming Coursera MOOC on the history and future of higher education. Professor Davidson […]
MOOCs and Engineering
I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that the world of MOOCs seems so bound up with the world of engineering and technology, especially computer science. After all, the first online classes that went massive to the tune of 100,000+ participants were computer science courses from Stanford, with the teachers of those courses going on to found […]
Around and About
Well it’s been a week of extracurricular activities here at Degree of Freedom (including a speaking gig that starts in about four hours). So, rather than the usual posting, I’ve included some pointers to DoF appearances at different sites this week. First off, if you haven’t checked out MOOC News and Reviews recently, that interview […]
Interview with Wesleyan President Michael Roth – Part 2
This week, I continue my discussion with Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University and the man behind Coursera’s The Modern and the Postmodern. Our conversation covers how his experience teaching a massive online course might impact how he teaches his live course in the future, as well as what MOOCs and other forms of technology-based learning mean […]
Interview with Wesleyan President Michael Roth – Part 1
Michael Roth is President of Wesleyan University and the man behind The Modern and the Postmodern, a popular undergraduate class at Wesleyan and one of the most interesting humanities MOOCs (offered by Coursera). I’ve taken Roth’s course (and reviewed it here) and in a wide ranging interview we talked about his experience teaching his first […]