Kolowich, S. (2012) Who takes MOOCs? Inside Higher Education, June 5 Article about a survey of 14,000 participants in Stanford's Andrew Ng's course on machine learning. It should be noted that the response rate is around 14% of all those that enrolled. The most common reason was that participants were curious about the topic. NOTE from poster - take a look at Coursera as well.
Author writes about some of the same reasons we're learning to use these tools in the online environment; however, the use of Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory as support for why these tools should be used is unusual.
Problems of privacy with social media sites are legal issues as well as practical ones. This article reveals various cases of employers (and schools) probing for personal data from subordinates.
More on the privacy theme. It's not just about students posting things that they'll regret later, it's also about making laws that protect us all from grasping superiors.
This is the first of a four-part colloquy of articles . Each piece has been contributed by authors who have intimate experience with the struggles, failures, and successes of online learning programs.
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