{"id":2462,"date":"2013-01-28T21:55:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T03:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2013-01-28T21:55:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T03:55:45","slug":"friedman-on-moocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2013\/01\/28\/friedman-on-moocs\/","title":{"rendered":"Friedman on MOOCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/27\/opinion\/sunday\/friedman-revolution-hits-the-universities.html?pagewanted=all\">Revolution Hits the Universities &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My opening discussion of C. Wright Mills\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s classic 1959 book, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Sociological Imagination,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was a close reading of the text, in which I reviewed a key chapter line by line. I asked students to follow along in their own copies, as I do in the lecture hall. When I give this lecture on the Princeton campus, I usually receive a few penetrating questions. In this case, however, within a few hours of posting the online version, the course forums came alive with hundreds of comments and questions. Several days later there were thousands. &#8230; Within three weeks I had received more feedback on my sociological ideas than I had in a career of teaching, which significantly influenced each of my subsequent lectures and seminars.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good op-ed about MOOCs. I don&#8217;t know if they are the silver bullet, but they are another avenue. My experience with an online course on Coursera last semester was positive, but we had the face-to-face time as well participating online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolution Hits the Universities &#8211; NYTimes.com: &#8220;My opening discussion of C. Wright Mills\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s classic 1959 book, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Sociological Imagination,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was a close reading of the text, in which I reviewed a key chapter line by line. I asked students to follow along in their own copies, as I do in the lecture hall. When I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-DI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}