tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072440028440011959.post6007227970764512436..comments2024-03-20T04:06:14.857-04:00Comments on Education Outrage: Princeton Professor teaches Coursera course; you must be kidding me!Roger Schankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14567989582447087635noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072440028440011959.post-44739692182378172002013-04-04T02:52:04.359-04:002013-04-04T02:52:04.359-04:00I'd have to go back and watch the actual class...I'd have to go back and watch the actual class and look at the actual message boards to know for sure (did you look at either of these yourself? it's unclear), but it sounds like you blatantly and possibly willfully misinterpret what the professor means by "I reviewed a key chapter line by line." I've had classes like this, where "review" doesn't mean "read verbatim," it means "discuss the implications of" - it's a close reading as you would do to a poem in a poetry class. <br /><br />Moreover, do you really expect the professor to respond to thousands of posts!? That is NOT one of the strengths - and, in fact, is one of the biggest weaknesses - of MOOCs. I would hope that the students were responding to one another and creating a good discussion that way, just as I hope the professor does engage with students who are enrolled in his face-to-face, presumably much smaller Princeton class.<br /><br />I don't think MOOCs are particularly "revolutionary" - that claim has been levied against so many tech-centric education reforms in the past, most of which were a flash in the pan at best - but at least be fair in your critiques.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072440028440011959.post-26949690564705999512013-02-22T09:57:08.741-05:002013-02-22T09:57:08.741-05:00Great post. I am convinced that those writing abo...Great post. I am convinced that those writing about the revolutionary impact of offerings from companies like Coursera have never sampled any of the courses. I think the best you can say about many of the current generation of MOOC's is that they bring radical efficiencies to a totally failed model. There's a good reason the completion percentage is less than 10% -- it's because the lectures are boring, the assessment tests are pedestrian, and it's unlikely any persevering student will learn anything of consequence from the experience. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10651874386679628695noreply@blogger.com