{"id":286,"date":"2013-03-18T07:55:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T11:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elearningpod.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2013-03-18T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T12:23:19","slug":"03-18-13-about-moocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"03.18.13. about mooc&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting\u00c2\u00a0article entitled &#8220;The Professors Behind the MOOC&#8221; from <em>The Chronicle:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC\/137905\/#id=overview\">http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC\/137905\/#id=overview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about MOOCs, but really talking about the design, development and delivery of any online course.<\/p>\n<p>Identifies that instructional design is an important part of the success of a mooc. For example, one of the profs,\u00c2\u00a0M. Ronen Plesser,\u00c2\u00a0&#8221; saw the challenge of captivating a vast, fickle audience as a way to reassess his own teaching techniques. I found that producing video lectures spurred me to hone pedagogical presentation to a far higher level than I had in 10 years of teaching the class on campus,&#8221; he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, note about costs. &#8220;It takes an immense amount of work to produce an adequate MOOC,&#8221; said Armando Fox, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley who has co-taught three MOOCs for Coursera, &#8220;and a staggering amount of work to produce a really good one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not seeing ROI for mooc&#8217;s? Recruitment tool, perhaps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting\u00c2\u00a0article entitled &#8220;The Professors Behind the MOOC&#8221; from The Chronicle: http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC\/137905\/#id=overview It&#8217;s about MOOCs, but really talking about the design, development and delivery of any online course. Identifies that instructional design is an important part of the success of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/?p=286\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,26,67,18,56,17],"tags":[31,86,89,49],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning-development-for-teachers-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-moocs","category-online-teaching","category-screencasting","category-teaching","tag-elearning","tag-instructional-design","tag-moocs","tag-online-teaching-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearningpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}