{"id":1612,"date":"2012-05-23T17:31:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2012-08-28T09:37:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T08:37:42","slug":"coursera-and-moocs-from-a-teachers-perspective-5-00pm-6-15-31st-may-oucs-dr-chuck-severance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2012\/05\/coursera-and-moocs-from-a-teachers-perspective-5-00pm-6-15-31st-may-oucs-dr-chuck-severance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Coursera and MOOCs: From A Teacher’s Perspective\u2019 5.00pm- 6.15 31st May, OUCS Dr Chuck Severance"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are very please to announce this seminar by Dr Chuck Severance who was the first executive director of the Sakai Foundation and the original chief architect of the Sakai Project.\u00a0 Today, he is a Clinical Associate Professor and teaches in the School of Information at the University of Michigan.
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\u2018Coursera and MOOCs: From A Teacher’s Perspective\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The idea of moving educational content to the web to make it more scalable has been around since the mid-1990s. \u00a0 Almost as soon as the web was widely used, one of the first imagined uses would be moving classroom instruction onto the web and achieving economies of scale using the web.\u00a0 While the idea seemed obvious and felt like it would quickly become a solved problem, repeated attempts to replicate the classroom experience at scale achieved only disappointing results.\u00a0 At some point, it seemed to many people that if the problem of teaching on the web at scale remained unsolved after 20 years – that perhaps it was simply not possible.\u00a0 But recently with the breakthrough Stanford AI class with over 160,000 students and the rapid development of efforts like Coursera, Udacity, and edX, it seems like Massively Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are seeing significant investment and amazing growth.<\/p>\n

What is different? \u00a0 What has changed? What is unique about MOOCs?\u00a0 Why does it seem like the same idea that has failed so may times before will finally work this time?\u00a0 Will these new MOOCs succeed or be just another hopeful experiment that ultimately fails in the long term?<\/p>\n

This talk will look at what it is like to develop and teach a Coursera course from a teacher’s perspective.\u00a0 Dr. Severance is teaching a course titled Internet History, Technology and Security on Coursera on July 23.\u00a0 Teaching with Coursera is part of a long-term effort that he started in 1996, when he developed the first lecture capture system called Sync-O-Matic in order to move his courses to the web when his students were using 28.8 modems. \u00a0 He will look at where Coursera is unique, different, and what is new and compare it to previous effort.<\/p>\n

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