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Christopher Sessums

Will MOOC's Take Down Branch Campuses? We Don't Think So - WorldWise - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    "Access to online learning is available just about anywhere, and economies of scale as represented by the MOOC's can make education incredibly inexpensive."
Christopher Sessums

Harvard Asks Alumni to Donate Time to Free Online Course - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • it asked alumni who had taken the course at the university to volunteer as online mentors and discussion group managers.
  • About 10 of Dr. Nagy’s former teaching fellows in the class will direct discussions, with help from a larger, still-undetermined number of former students. Both groups will work unpaid; the e-mail to alumni said the work would require three to five hours a week.
  • About a dozen recent former students were recruited before Monday’s e-mail was sent, Ms. Filos said. Those who express interest will be screened, “and they have to be brought up to speed on the material,”
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  • Most of the assessments will be done by fellow students, an approach taken in many other MOOCs
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    tying alumni into online courses. bout time!
Christopher Sessums

Top Schools Move to Offer Free Courses Online - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    "Twelve top universities Tuesday joined a venture that offers free Internet courses world-wide, in a bet by some of the most prestigious institutions globally on online education."
Christopher Sessums

Massive Open Online Courses -- A Threat Or Opportunity To Universities? - Forbes - 0 views

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    "The unbundling of learning, credentials, social interaction, facility access, and assessment will make it possible for institutions to establish new business models. "
Christopher Sessums

Course-Management Companies Challenge MOOC Providers - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    "We see this as a democratization of MOOC's-we want to allow anybody to participate in online learning, and we also want them to do it their way"
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