Comments on: “[Y]ou must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with…a herring.” http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/you-must-cut-down-the-mightiest-tree-in-the-forest-with-a-herring/ "History is more or less bunk." - Henry Ford, 25 May 1916. Thu, 23 May 2013 05:50:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: MOOCs and the History Classroom « Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/you-must-cut-down-the-mightiest-tree-in-the-forest-with-a-herring/#comment-4708 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:35:14 +0000 http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/?p=8196#comment-4708 [...] has also emphasized the structural problems of MOOCs, which include a lack of substantive feedback, academic dishonesty (in a free course, [...]

]]> By: Historiann http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/you-must-cut-down-the-mightiest-tree-in-the-forest-with-a-herring/#comment-4444 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:45:45 +0000 http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/?p=8196#comment-4444 We need to make sure the jokers who run central admin at our unis see this stuff, Jonathan.

Meanwhile, a commenter at my blog sent me this link to an op-ed from the Prez of Wililams College defending the work we do in old-fashioned and yet time-tested F2F courses: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10000872396390444327204577615592746799900-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwOTAyODk3Wj.html

It’s called “In Defense of the Living, Breathing Professor.” It’s ironic that Coursera and other online schemes are so unaccountable, given the fact that you and I (and all other faculty, including tenured faculty) are expected to account for every minute of our time, and that every student we work with every year gets to weigh in on our performance as professors. And yet: data on the efficacy of online courses in general? Data on the efficacy of specific online courses offered by specific instructors through specific unis? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?

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