Baseball’s opening day is behind us, but if you can’t get enough of this spring ritual, you can savor another opening day of sorts May 29, when a baseball-centered class debuts as BU’s first MOOC, BU Today reports.
Sabermetrics 101: Introduction to Baseball Analytics [1] kicks off what ultimately will be five MOOCs (massive open online courses) BU will offer via edX [2], the online platform spearheaded by Harvard and MIT. MOOCs allow students around the world to take university classes free, for no credit.
For sabermetrician Andy Andres, the MOOC is a chance to put online a course he taught for a decade in a traditional classroom setting at Tufts before coming to BU in 2000. It will be the first time he’s rolled out the course here in any form, and the prospect that a student with a laptop in Bora Bora could access it thrills him.
“In the previous years that I have taught this course, there were many students who were not on campus and wanted to take it,” says Andres, a College of General Studies senior lecturer in natural sciences and mathematics.
Read more [3]