MOOCs and Liberal Education

I watched most of this. I liked the format of the webinar itself.

I thought the TV boom was the early one. This makes me think how far back does it go? Correspondence College? This evil thing called "writing"? Will the difference be the two-way feedback in real-time that makes the difference?

Correspondence is different from radio + tv, since it builds in interaction. Perhaps that difference is playing out in the MOOCsphere now.

Pinterest meets MOOCs (or OERs generally, but note the way it's being sold).

Wow... if you try to sign up as an "educator", it demands an .edu email address.

Using the Pinterest model. Interesting. That competes with Diigo.

Impressions on the Mod-Po class.

Wow. Amazing poetry class.

Sounds exciting, doesn't it? And a fine example of a humanities MOOC.

Seems like she sees libraries as A/V support for MOOCs.

Some interesting notes, reflecting MOOC instructors' thoughts: -students shouldn't get credit at their school for passing a MOOC -MOOCs will lower college costs -teaching one takes time from other responsibilities

There's that grumpy 6% who have taught a MOOC and believe their institution will eventually offer credit for them, but don't feel students who succeed in them deserve it. What's going on there?

Heh! Darkness.

The recent wave of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has highlighted the potential for making educational offerings accessible at a global level. The attention MOOCs have received is well deserved, but it belies the fact that various forms of online education have existed for many years.

Case study of MOOCifying one MIT class.

Are MOOCs the new "television" of the 1970's?