A Faculty Perspective on OCW and MOOCs
Professor Shigueru Miyagawa is one of OCW’s most prolific participants, and a long-standing member and recent chair of the OCW Faculty Advisory Committee. As he’s told us: “To be able…
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Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Say (New York Times)
Last week, MIT News published a Q&A with MIT economics professor David Autor about inequality among the “99 percent.” This week, the conversation continues with discussion about the cost, and…
Continue readingHarvard Goes All in For Online Courses (Boston Globe)
Have you ever wondered how a MOOC becomes a MOOC? Take a peak behind the scenes at the production of HarvardX courses with this article from The Boston Globe: Harvard…
Continue readingThe Student Becomes the Teacher (Slate)
Slate recently wrote about Battushig Myanganbayar, who at 15 aced 6.002x, the first MOOC from MIT based on the sophomore level engineering course. As Slate puts it: Designers of the…
Continue readingAnant Agarwal on MOOC Learners: Who They Are, What Motivates Them (HuffPost Education)
Imagine a MOOC learner: Who is she? How old is she? Where does she live? Anant Agarwal, the CEO of edX, recently wrote a blog post on HuffPost Education that…
Continue readingSpace Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun (NY Times)
Space Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun By DENNIS OVERBYE MARCH 17, 2014 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — One night late in 1979, an itinerant young physicist named Alan Guth, with a…
Continue readingHarvard and MIT Make a Compelling Case for MOOCs (GigaOM)
Harvard and MIT make a compelling case for MOOCs By Derrick Harris Harvard and MIT have released the draft of a working paper that makes a strong case for the…
Continue readingCompletion Rates Aren’t the Best Way to Judge MOOCs, Researchers Say (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
Completion Rates Aren’t the Best Way to Judge MOOCs, Researchers Say January 22, 2014 by Jennifer Howard When it comes to measuring the success of an education program, the bottom…
Continue readingTaming the Firehose (The Tech)
MIT’s student newspaper, The Tech, is carrying an opinion piece by MIT student and friend of OCW Mat Peterson, whom we’ve profiled on one of our OCW stories. From the…
Continue readingP2PU’s Philipp Schmidt Named to Wired.co.uk Smart List 2013
Our congratulations go out to MIT Media Lab visiting scientist and Peer 2 Peer University co-founder/executive director Philipp Schmidt, who was recently named by musician Peter Gabriel to the Wired.co.uk…
Continue readingDirty Antebellum Secrets in Ivory Towers ‘Ebony and Ivy,’ About How Slavery Helped Universities Grow (NY Times)
Dirty Antebellum Secrets in Ivory Towers ‘Ebony and Ivy,’ About How Slavery Helped Universities Grow By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Published: October 18, 2013 When Craig Steven Wilder first began digging…
Continue readingHow Do You Make Money From Something That is Free? Borrow Some Moves from the Commercial Open Source Playbook. (opensource.com)
How do you make money from something that is free? Borrow some moves from the commercial open source playbook. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are disrupting the higher education marketplace…
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