{"id":11998,"date":"2012-10-08t07:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-08t12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=11998"},"modified":"2012-10-03t14:30:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03t19:30:26","slug":"teaching-and-learning-in-open-online-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2012\/10\/teaching-and-learning-in-open-online-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"teaching and learning in open, online courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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on september 19th, vanderbilt announced a new partnership with the digital learning consortium coursera.\u00a0 coursera is an online platform for open-access, non-credit classes, available at no cost to participants.\u00a0 such courses have been dubbed \u201cmoocs,\u201d or massive open online courses, and vanderbilt faculty will offer five such courses via coursera this spring, in the fields of computer science, nursing, english, management, and bioinformatics.\u00a0 moocs are characterized by their openness, enabling anyone across the world with an internet connection to participate.\u00a0 as a result, most moocs have thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of participants.<\/p>\n

an online course with potentially tens of thousands of students is a very different teaching environment than face-to-face courses or even \u201ctraditional\u201d online courses.\u00a0 teaching strategies practiced in other teaching contexts won\u2019t necessarily translate well to this context.\u00a0 indeed, the sets of choices regarding learning objectives, content presentation, assessment, and instructor-to-student and student-to-student interaction are still being developed in this emergent teaching environment.\u00a0 over the next year, the cft will explore this new teaching environment by\u00a0<\/p>\n