The strangest thing about this MOOC obsession is the idea that something that very wealthy private institutions offer for free, at a loss, as a service to humanity, must somehow represent the magic numbers in the higher-education lottery. It’s new, it’s “innovative,” and it’s big, the thinking goes. So it must be the answer.
I am hoping to apply for this with Mark to get some funding for the Journal of Public Philosophy project. The technological innovation would be the platform that allows for all the open review, etc. we have in mind.
A report on the first round of "Digging into Data" grants, sponsored by NEH, NSF, JISC in the UK, and SSHRC in Canada. Projects profiled include Will Thomas's railroads project and several large scale text mining projects.