tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15350975.post6343118648257894197..comments2024-03-27T09:08:50.883-07:00Comments on Bad Mom, Good Mom: Required reading about MOOCsbadmomgoodmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569728075698885020noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15350975.post-78356509805965329122013-05-16T10:55:27.198-07:002013-05-16T10:55:27.198-07:00@Cloud Yes, please do send her the link. I'm...@Cloud Yes, please do send her the link. I'm interested in her take.badmomgoodmomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11569728075698885020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15350975.post-85618545688724769142013-05-16T10:40:17.835-07:002013-05-16T10:40:17.835-07:00One of the people I follow on twitter is a grad st...One of the people I follow on twitter is a grad student in sociology researching these issues. Here is her most recent post on the topic, which I have not yet had time to read:<br /><a href="http://tressiemc.com/2013/05/15/profit-highered-and-lessons-on-the-prestige-cartel/" rel="nofollow">http://tressiemc.com/2013/05/15/profit-highered-and-lessons-on-the-prestige-cartel/</a><br /><br />Would you mind if I pointed her to your blog? She recently asked what problem MOOCs solve, and I answered that I've seen them used fruitfully by techies who are already highly educated and want to learn new skills. It sounds like that has been your experience, too.<br /><br />Also, the mother of the woman who writes Mom101 is the force behind GoingPublic.org (<a href="http://www.goingpublic.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.goingpublic.org/</a>). <br /><br />Lots of interesting and thought-provoking things out there on what is happening in education right now. I haven't had time to really absorb it all.Cloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15350975.post-5273240451139629972013-05-15T15:27:04.147-07:002013-05-15T15:27:04.147-07:00you are very welcome.. I took one of the mass mark...you are very welcome.. I took one of the mass market Coursera courses. Certainly it's an excellent option for those who have no other access to the material, but it did not appear in any way to be teaching. With thousands of students, the lecturers might as well be reading out chapters of the textbook. Any learning that happened occurred at random in the online forums and chatrooms around the course, not the lecture videos. Online courses are a fine resource for autodidacts but no replacement for teachers.<br /><br />Similar things are happening in elementary/school education, with Bill Gates and the Walmart heirs funding a Taylorist approach to teaching, eagerly promulgated by Arne Duncan. This punishes the excellent admirable teachers of my children, never mind the idealists who are teaching in inner cities: I get so incensed I can barely speak. <br />Douglas Kretzmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07594782071750975708noreply@blogger.com