‘moocs’
meet cft graduate assistant katie mcewen
sep. 27, 2012—as the cft explores digital learning through the coursera initiative, we’re glad to have help from katie mcewen, who is working as a graduate assistant at the cft this year. katie is a doctoral student in the department of germanic and slavic languages. she specializes in 18th- to 20th-century german literature, with an emphasis on...
vanderbilt’s newest digital learning initiative
sep. 19, 2012—by derek bruff, cft director this morning vanderbilt announced a new partnership with the digital learning consortium coursera. coursera is an online platform for open-access, non-credit classes, available at no cost to participants. such courses have been dubbed “moocs,” or massive open online courses, and vanderbilt faculty will offer five such courses via coursera this...