Category: MOOCs

About Open in MOOC

Originally posted on Questions: “Open in the sense that all of the work gets done in areas that make the work accessible for people to read and reflect and make comment on. The course is open in the sense that you can go ahead and take the course without paying for it you might pay…

June 19, 2013
Google Maps and Google Earth MOOC – lots of new things to learn!

This is fun! I am finishing up the first week of Google’s Maps and Earth MOOC. Here is the link to the map I am working on for the Week 1 assignment: Vinegar Hill Cafe – the HEART of Charlottesville This map highlights the Vinegar Hill Cafe in the Jefferson School City Center and shows…

June 17, 2013
MOOC Experiences – my storytelling approach using WordPress and Twitter

I will continue to use WordPress and Twitter as my chosen social media tools for reflecting on my MOOC learning. I have enjoyed my experiences as a MOOC student in several courses, and I am looking forward to those to come. It was apparent to me from the beginning, however, that

May 28, 2013
U.Va. Faculty, Students Give Online Education a Mostly Positive Grade | UVA Today

I am so pleased that I had the opportunity to participate in this exciting experiment! Emanuel Grant’s introduction to the world of massive open online courses – a/k/a “MOOCs” – came this spring in his final undergraduate semester at the University of Virginia.The Italian studies major from Fairfax served as a volunteer “Community TA” for…

May 17, 2013
Week 10 – Know Thyself | An end but also a beginning

Thank you, Professor Green and all those at UVa who worked so hard to produce this superb MOOC! This is my final post for this course, but just the beginning of the newest “me” …

May 13, 2013
Week 9 – Know Thyself | Maybe dementia has no “self” to steal

Today I am fine, and I will enjoy this moment! If we have no “selves” to lose, perhaps living in the present rather than dwelling on the past

May 6, 2013