Anyone who's gone through the effort of converting a traditional course into a MOOC can attest that the "M" in the acronym doesn't just refer to the size of the class--it's also an apt description of how much labor is involved in preparing the course.
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Massive open online courses shake up the way professors teach traditional classes. Maybe we'll end up not with lecture classes and not with MOOCs, but a highly effective combination.
Almost immediately after I uploaded this preview to YouTube, someone on Twitter challenged me. She took umbrage to my assertion that MOOCs are pedagogically richer than “regular” online courses.
Meetups have become one of the best solutions to increase social aspect of MOOCs and decrease its dropouts. In this article, we let you know how Meetups can improve your MOOC experience.
Michael Peters, a professor of education at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has a thorough criticism of Massive…
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Kühn enjoys MOOCs and has recommended them to friends, and in this regard, he is typical of many science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students who take classes from online platforms. A readers' survey conducted by Nature and Scientific American found that more than 80 percent of 1,128 STEM students who had taken at least one MOOC agreed or strongly agreed that they enjoyed the latest course they took. Slightly larger percentages said they would take a MOOC in the future and w