Brown University Creates Online Course for High School Students - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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as Brown’s team has come to believe, it could start a trend of directly advising high school students and their teachers on specific curriculums, motivated in part by the hypercompetitive college admissions process.
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Ted O'Neill on 20 Apr 13This could actually add to the competitive admissions process, or ideally replace it with a creative learning activity that builds knowledge in the applicant and connections between incoming first-years.
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Still, Brown’s online development team is debating whether to offer a certificate of some kind to students who complete the course, which officials know would be used as yet another college application supplement.
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Replace! Don't add to the madness! Be courageous and get rid of the other stuff high school students are forced to do to pad or extend their CVs.
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Now, in what seems to be the first major effort by a university to tailor a massive open online course, or MOOC, specifically to high school students, Brown University is preparing to offer a free online engineering class with the aim of teaching high school students about the merits and challenges of the field.
