By: Vim, Ph.D. (@Exhaust_Fumes)
Last night, after a full day of teaching, I knew I couldn’t do any “real” work, so the MOOC papers seemed like a perfect way to work without actually working. That attitude, that it’s low stakes work...
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oh, and also: you ARE a number! As you suggested in your previous post, that’s the point!
View ArticleBy: Mazel
Have you learned as much from this MOOC as you might have learned by spending a few hours with a good book on the topic?
View ArticleBy: Jonathan Rees
Wow, that’s a good question. All things being equal, I’d prefer the book.
View ArticleBy: Anne Corner
Well this is thought-provoking! I was rather enjoying the class but I thoroughly see what you mean about the essays and even the videos. I can write a history essay in my sleep but that doesn’t seem to...
View ArticleBy: Mazel
Hi Anne–may I ask you the same question I asked Jonathan, namely, have you learned as much from the MOOC as you might have learned by spending a few hours with a good book on the topic? I think we...
View ArticleBy: Music for Deckchairs
I have to agree: I don’t think we can begin to understand the promotional ballyhoo around MOOCs simply by looking at their content or structure. Most are a bit clunky, but they’ll improve — witnessing...
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Tiny update, from trade press I've just been reading. In the early 1920s, cinema entrepreneur, J. D. Williams—someone I've thought before <a / rel="nofollow">knew what was coming to...
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[...] make matters worse, Mazel has been pursuing another killer anti-MOOC argument in the comments to my last report on this experience: I think we should all keep asking this question to keep...
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[...] I predicted, all of the comments I got were very short – a few incomplete sentences really, just like I wrote [...]
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