As many readers know, my background in professional test design has left me sensitive to MOOC quizzes and exams that sometimes seem thrown together as afterthoughts. This is because in the best designed courses, instruction and assessment (whether in the form of quizzes, final exams, graded papers and homework assignments) work hand in hand to […]
Day Off
I need to polish off some work on the senior thesis chapter I worked on over the weekend (as well as get this week’s Degree of Freedom Newsletter out – this one reviewing the Great Courses class I just finished up entitled Why Evil Exists). So no other thoughts from me on today’s blog, although […]
Interview with Kyle Courtney – Copyright Advisor for Harvard and HarvardX
This week Degree of Freedom interview is with Kyle Courtney, Copyright Advisor to Harvard University (including HarvardX). As hinted at yesterday, copyright (and other forms of intellectual property law) represent the biggest legal minefield for massive open online education. Infringement that might have once been given a pass in the lecture hall now represents enormous […]
MOOCs and the Law
If MOOCs are so great, how come no one has been sued over them yet? This sentiment is meant mostly in jest. I say “mostly” because creators of other great innovations and new industries in the past have only been seen to have “made it” when someone finds them worth dragging into court. While the […]
MOOC Assignments – Screwing Up
I can’t tell you how exciting it’s been to actually blow some questions in my most recent MOOC assignment. I’ve talked before about how assessment and other scored exercises tend to get short shrift within many MOOCs. In some cases, this manifests itself as test questions or homework assignments that are ambiguously worded or confusing. […]
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