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Coursera: Promise and Potential in Unexpected Places

August 2, 2012

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I’ve held back from giving an evaluation Coursera preferring to wait until I completed an entire course, which I did recently, Introduction to Sociology, which closed on July 20th.  This course had 40,000 students enrolled which is consistent with enrollment for a MOOC, though the number of students completing both exams I’m sure was far lower. If you are not familiar with Coursera, Coursera is a joint effort to offer free undergraduate level courses, which are Open, Online, and Massive, a.k.a.

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Here is a very interesting post by Debbie Morrison on a coursera.org class that she recently completed. As well, she provides insightful comments about MOOCs in general. Her MOOC assessment is one of the few blogs out there that is based in actual experience of completing a class as opposed to just talking about the concept.
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