Category: MOOCs

Coursera / Kennedy Half Century – Week 1 Reflection – How much TV I missed!

The Kennedy Half Century – JFK’s Rise to Power I am really enjoying the video clips inserted in the lectures and realizing how much of the TV coverage that I missed the first time around. We had only

October 27, 2013
The Kennedy Half Century – Coursera UVa MOOC – Fascinating!

The Kennedy Half Century I was a college freshman in Washington, DC, when John F. Kennedy was elected, and a senior when he was assassinated. We students had accepted his challenge

October 22, 2013
Coursera / Social Psychology: WEEK 6: A Happy End to the Course

Week 6 Reflection I am really sorry that this course is over! It has been the very best of the MOOCs that I have taken, and I will really miss relaxing and watching the very entertaining, surprising, and informative video lectures. The readings and all of the “extras” were very special as well. I am […]

September 21, 2013
Coursera / Social Psychology: WEEK 5: Conflict, Peacemaking, Intervention | “Blessed be the peacemakers”

Week 5 Reflection We need more peacemakers on the Web. I have been appalled at some of the catty personal Web postings from people that I thought I knew pretty well both in person and through their professional posts on the Web. At times there seems to be a competition for the most snark, as […]

September 15, 2013
Coursera / Social Psychology: Week 4 – Group Behavior: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Week 4 Reflection The timing of this course seems almost prescient! I know that the course was delayed from its original start date so that the interactive features could be added to the lectures. It is this interactivity that makes this course such a standout, but what really is amazing

September 8, 2013
Coursera / Social Psychology: Week 3 – Obedience, Conformity, and Deindividuation

Week 3 Reflection It was very fortuitous for me that this week’s lectures and readings coincided with my first week back at school as a tutor/mentor. It brought to mind my first year of teaching

August 31, 2013