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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...

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Are 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...

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Paths 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...

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Student 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...

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Paleofuture 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...

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Lessons 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...

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My 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...

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MOOCs 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...

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Quote: 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...

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Textbook 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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