California's online imposition
This is big education news, from the California legislature: "Measure Seeks Campus Credit For Web Study".If it passes, as seems likely, it would be the first time that state legislators have instructed...
View ArticleAre MOOCs technical or practical?
All the NY Times columnists will be writing about MOOCs before long, I suspect. Today it was David Brooks' turn: "The Practical University". His argument is that digital technology allows much more...
View ArticlePaths through MOOCs
I've been doing a lot of tracking of massive open online courses, including enrolling in several of them, as research for my upcoming course, "Human Evolution: Past and Future". A new site, "MOOC News...
View ArticleStudent attention spans are variable
There is much discussion in online education about the "15-minute rule": that content longer than 15 minutes will lose students' attention. Part of this is because of the intrinsic pain of watching...
View ArticlePaleofuture radio MOOCs
The Chronicle of Higher Ed takes us to a time in the past, when massive radio correspondence courses were the wave of the future, including at my alma mater, Kansas State: "Before MOOCs: 'Colleges of...
View ArticleLessons in social justice from MOOCs
The Philosophy department at San Jose State University have written an open letter to Michael Sandel, a Harvard teacher of government and lauded lecturer. Why is this news? Because Sandel is the...
View ArticleMy open letter to SJSU Philosophy
On Thursday, the Philosophy department of San José State University released an open letter to Michael Sandel, instructor of a Harvard edX MOOC. I reacted to the letter in my post, "Lessons in social...
View ArticleMOOCs and disabilities
The Coursera blog today relates a remarkable story: "Not Impossible: The Story of Daniel, a 17 Year Old with Severe Autism & His 6 Completed Coursera Courses". He even had a moment of stardom. We...
View ArticleQuote: Stephen Downes on the value of open courses
Stephen Downes, widely recognized as one of the original inventors of the "MOOC" concept, on why courses should be open: "MOOC - The Resurgence of Community in Online Learning". Why make our courses...
View ArticleTextbook troubles
A link from a reader: "'Required reading': As textbook prices soar, students try to cope".The College Board found that the average student at a four-year public college spends $1,200 on “books and...
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