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How will a MOOC serve my students?

February 19, 2013 by John

In any given class, I have some combination of first-generation college students, students whose parents have professional degrees, lower class, middle class, and upper class students, students who are engaged, students who are not, students who can learn on their own, and students who cannot. One of the most difficult parts of my job is teaching in a way that works for as many of these students as possible. I recently wrote about my belief that massive open online courses (MOOCs) are not a good match for my institution. Yesterday’s editorial in the New York Times makes the point that MOOCs are also unlikely to be a good match for many of my students.

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Posted in Campus Life, Student Life, Teaching Tricks, The Electronic Age | Tagged Higher Education, Memoirs of a SLACer, MOOCs, New York Times, Online Courses | 2 Comments

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  1. on February 21, 2013 at 9:02 pm Obama’s educational argument | Memoirs of a SLACer

    […] « How will a MOOC serve my students? […]


  2. on August 22, 2013 at 9:00 pm Educational branding | Memoirs of a SLACer

    […] obviously a faculty member and not an expert in marketing or branding, but looking at the current trends in higher education it seems that any small liberal arts college that wants to exist in its current state fifty years […]



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