Pieces like this one fit a pattern we’ve seen during the second half of this year where negative “backlash” stories have muscled out the educational utopianism attached to earlier media accounts of the MOOC phenomenon. Yet even when listing all the alleged failings of the massive online course, such stories still find it difficult to say […]
How Long Should a MOOC Go On?
I got my biggest Halloween scare right before the sun went down and I logged into my edX account to see what ChinaX, Harvard’s latest edition to their MOOC catalog, would demand of me between now and the end of the year (when I anticipated its conclusion would wrap up my One Year BA). Imagine […]
MOOCs and Grading – Interpreting Obviousity Results
Getting back to the Obviousity scores we looked at a couple of days ago, the lessons to be drawn even from my simple experiment go beyond just reinforcing the need to follow the professional item-writing principles, like those I recommended a few months back. Yes, MOOC developers should avoid true/false questions and do a better […]
Coursera Learning Hubs
We interrupt this week’s Obviousity Experiment to talk about today’s announcement by Coursera of their new Global Learning Hub program. As they describe in this press release, these new Learning Hubs “will offer people around the world physical spaces where they can access the Internet to take a Coursera course, while learning alongside peers in […]
MOOCs and Grading – Obviousity Results
OK, so I ran my Obviousity Index test on several of the classes I’ve taken (not enough for a comprehensive scientific analysis, but enough to inform this conversation). Remember from yesterday that the Obviousity Index is derived from looking at MOOC courses where the final grade is based entirely on how a student performs in […]
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