I have been a long time proponent of online education and have been offering webcasts of my classes since 2001. However, I was a little skeptical about the…
After a couple of years basking in the spotlight the tide seems to have turned in MOOC-land. We seem to be heading for the dreaded trough of disillusionment.…
Academic integrity is a critical asset in our higher education infrastructure which protects the quality and value of degrees conferred. The first brick of the foundation is student…
I’m going to strike now, while the conversational iron is hot, and ask people to define success for a calculus MOOC. I’ve already mostly explained why in this…
I've participated in many MOOCs (I've lost count). Many of them I felt were xMOOCs but I wasn't so comfortable with my first MOOC experience which I thought…
I spent some time over the holidays looking at some MOOC offerings – either the freebie intro lectures available from some of the major providers, or the clips…
Over the past few weeks, we have been exploring the roles—real and potential—of MOOCs in improving higher education around the world. As the country that is home to…
In every school I’ve seen, teachers who want to incorporate multimedia learning objects into their courses have no choice but to produce those materials themselves. Teachers who want…