{"id":38286,"date":"2013-03-13T10:44:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=38286"},"modified":"2013-03-13T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T14:45:28","slug":"reflections-on-hollywood-meets-higher-ed-ripley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/03\/13\/reflections-on-hollywood-meets-higher-ed-ripley\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Hollywood meets higher ed&#8221; [Ripley]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Some reflections on<\/span> &#8220;<a href=\"www.amandaripley.com\/blog\/hollywood_meets_higher_ed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hollywood meets higher ed<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> &#8212; a thought-provoking post by Amanda Ripley<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But online classes are different than the in-person kind: Not only do they have a huge potential profit upside, given the ability to attract tens of thousands of students worldwide, but they are, at their best, performances. No one likes to say this out loud in academia, but it\u2019s true: the most impactful MOOCs are also entertaining. The teacher does not need to be a singing, dancing, joke-telling maniac, but the teacher does need to be riveting, one way or another. The production quality needs to be high. Or the students will evaporate, clicking off to Facebook or Twitter or one of the many other online classes multiplying on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> I post this with a fair amount of hesitation, as mixing the words &#8220;higher ed&#8221; with Hollywood makes me very uneasy&#8230;but Amanda makes some good points in her posting and she highlights yet another potential disruption to the way things are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativelive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38287\" alt=\"creativelive-mardch2013\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/creativelive-mardch2013.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/creativelive-mardch2013.jpg 732w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/creativelive-mardch2013-150x77.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Some reflections on &#8220;Hollywood meets higher ed&#8220; &#8212; a thought-provoking post by Amanda Ripley Excerpt: But online classes are different than the in-person kind: Not only do they have a huge potential profit upside, given the ability to attract tens of thousands of students worldwide, but they are, at their best, performances. 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