I finally got to star in my own MOOC! Well, a mini-MOOC anyway. Or a SPOC. Or whatever you want to call what we previously called “online learning” before the MOOC phenom created a new set of categories with associated acronyms. My course is actually an internal one for HarvardX that attempts to make the […]
Making MOOCs
A number of people have asked about what’s it’s like being on the inside of the MOOC-development process, now that my recent Fellowship puts me in the middle of the action of course creation. While I could wax rhapsodic about the joy of working with smart and dedicated colleagues (vs. just consuming their output, as […]
My HarvardX “Embed”
As some of you already know, I’ve recently started a six-month engagement as the inaugural Visiting Fellow at HarvardX. During that time, I’ll be focusing on how to improve assessment within HarvardX’s growing catalog of online learning experiences (which I’ve already learned should not all be described under the term “courses”). And my mandate (and […]
Interview with HarvardX Researcher Justin Reich
Today’s podcast guest is Justin Reich, Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow, a Fellow at the Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a visiting lecturer in the Scheller Teacher Education Program at MIT. Justin was that guy some of you saw on stage when Harvard released its research findings back in January. And […]
Marketing MOOCs
A discussion I had last week with Justin Reich, the person who presented those HarvardX research findings back in January, got me thinking about the notion of whether marketing MOOCs is required to attract continued “customers” (i.e., students). This question actually derived from another one regarding enrollments and completion numbers for MOOCs delivered more than once. […]