{"id":40266,"date":"2013-05-30T08:03:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T12:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=40266"},"modified":"2013-05-30T12:14:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T16:14:31","slug":"state-systems-go-mooc-rivard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/05\/30\/state-systems-go-mooc-rivard\/","title":{"rendered":"State systems go MOOC [Rivard]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2013\/05\/30\/state-systems-and-universities-nine-states-start-experimenting-coursera\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>State systems go MOOC<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from insidehighered.com by Ry Rivard<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt (<span style=\"color: #800000;\">emphasis DSC<\/span>):<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Universities from New Mexico to New York will join Coursera in a sprawling expansion of the Silicon Valley startup\u2019s efforts to take online education to the masses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Together, state systems and flagship universities in nine states will help the company<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> test new business models and teaching methods<\/span><\/strong> and potentially put Coursera in competition with some of the ed tech industry\u2019s most established players.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.psu.edu\/story\/278012\/2013\/05\/29\/academics\/qa-launch-penn-states-first-mooc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Q&amp;A on the launch of Penn State&#8217;s first MOOC<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from by psu.edu<br \/>\nAnna Divinsky and Keith Bailey talk about the launch of the first of the University&#8217;s five massive open online courses.<br \/>\n<em>Excerpt:<\/em><br \/>\nUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. &#8212; Penn State launched its first massive open online course (MOOC), Introduction to Art: Concepts and Techniques,\u00a0yesterday &#8212; an effort that has been three\u00a0months in the making.\u00a0Anna Divinsky, lead faculty member of the Digital Arts Certificate Program at Penn State,\u00a0has been instrumental in creating the first of the five courses that Penn State is offering this year on the leading MOOC platform, Coursera.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State systems go MOOC &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Ry Rivard Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Universities from New Mexico to New York will join Coursera in a sprawling expansion of the Silicon Valley startup\u2019s efforts to take online education to the masses. Together, state systems and flagship universities in nine states will help the company test new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[533,35,3,505,239,173,321,214],"tags":[808,585,566,453,251,658,679,572],"class_list":["post-40266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimentation","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-new-business-models","category-pedagogy","category-united-states","category-universities","tag-experimentation","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education","tag-moocs","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-pedagogy","tag-universities","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40266"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40313,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40266\/revisions\/40313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}