{"id":38444,"date":"2013-03-19T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=38444"},"modified":"2013-03-19T13:51:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:51:19","slug":"the-professors-who-make-the-moocs-kolowich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/03\/19\/the-professors-who-make-the-moocs-kolowich\/","title":{"rendered":"The professors who make the MOOCs [Kolowich]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC\/137905\/#id=overview\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The professors who make the MOOCs<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from The Chronicle by Steve Kolowich<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Like many professors at top-ranked institutions, Mr. Sedgewick was very skeptical about online education. But he was intrigued by the notion of bringing his small Princeton course on algorithms, which he had taught for five years, to a global audience. So after Princeton signed a deal with an upstart company called Coursera to offer MOOCs, he volunteered for the front lines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC\/137905\/#id=overview\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo illustration\" src=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/img\/photos\/biz\/5928-moocs-Gries.jpg\" width=\"485\" height=\"318\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Dave Chidley for The Chronicle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The professors who make the MOOCs &#8212; from The Chronicle by Steve Kolowich Excerpt: Like many professors at top-ranked institutions, Mr. Sedgewick was very skeptical about online education. But he was intrigued by the notion of bringing his small Princeton course on algorithms, which he had taught for five years, to a global audience. So [&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":[61,57,32,210,533,71,36,95,3,505,239,62],"tags":[56,810,808,605,586,585,96,566,453,693],"class_list":["post-38444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-experimentation","category-faculty-staff","category-future-of-higher-education","category-global-globalization","category-higher-education","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","tag-educational-technology","tag-etmooc","tag-experimentation","tag-faculty-staff","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-global","tag-higher-education","tag-moocs","tag-new-business-models"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38448,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38444\/revisions\/38448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}