“I am viewing this MOOC as an opportunity to gauge my own ability to assimilate myself into a routine of learning and keeping up with a schedule designed by someone other than myself,” said one MOOC student who graduated from high school 20 years ago and has wanted to resume her education and earn a college degree.
Instructure isn’t the first MOOC platform to use pop culture as a recruitment tool for its online classes.
Ball State University in April 2013 launched a Canvas-hosted MOOC taught by Christina Blanch that explored gender issues in comic books and comic book culture.
More than 7,000 students enrolled in the course, which was referred to as #SuperMOOC on Twitter.
William Kuskin, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, launched a MOOC of his own last month through Coursera that examines comic books as literature.
Most importantly to the future of humankind, eight in 10 students who took the ‘Walking Dead” MOOC said the class gave them a better chance of survival in the case of the zombie apocalypse.
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