health policy and the affordable care act : screencast with live-lecture footage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nungraded interactive quiz questions<\/strong> pop up to test recall in each lecture \u201cchunk.\u201d\u00a0 no grade is given for these questions, and students may choose to skip them altogether or merely guess their way through.\u00a0 yet, the questions do gesture toward keeping students involved in the lecture, and provide them with an easy method to check understanding.\u00a0 one course even synchronizes these questions in coursera with the clicker and discussion questions posed in lecture, allowing students in the coursera course to compare answers with those of the shadowy students filmed in lecture in philadelphia.\u00a0 a rather uncanny experience.<\/p>\neven though video lectures are the most common method of presentation in coursera, next time we\u2019ll take a look at a different approach: the video discussion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by katie mcewen, graduate assistant next semester vanderbilt will begin offering its first round of massive open online courses (moocs) as a part of the coursera consortium.\u00a0 now 33 universities strong, coursera lists 198 courses over fifteen different disciplines: from medicine to computer science; physical and earth sciences to humanities and social sciences, coursera seems…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":12029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[191],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154346\/coursera-logo-300x2251.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}