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The MOOC Express – Less Hype, More Hope
A real-time chronicle of a seasoned professor just about to launch the fourth edition of his massively open online course. Last week, I headed off to Arlington, Texas, to participate in a large,...
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MathThink MOOC v4 – Part 1
A real-time chronicle of a seasoned professor just about to launch the fourth edition of his massively open online course. In Part 1 of a series, I focus on the distinction between high school math and...
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MathThink MOOC v4 – Part 2
A real-time chronicle of a seasoned professor just about to launch the fourth edition of his massively open online course. In Part 2, I reveal that I share with Steve Jobs, J K Rowling, Sebastian...
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MathThink MOOC v4 – Part 3
In Part 3, I describe some aspects and origins of the basic course pedagogy, and how they relate to student expectations. This post continues the previous two in this series. Expectations. So far I’ve...
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MathThink MOOC v4 – Part 6
In Part 6, I talk about the new Test Flight process. In the past, when students enrolled for my MOOC, they essentially had three options. One was not to take it as a course at all, but just regard it...
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MathThink MOOC v4 – Part 7
In Part 7, I ask myself (yet again) does it need to be a course? One issue I keep returning to is whether my MOOC should be a course. Or, to put the question a more useful way, what features of a...
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MathThink MOOC v4 – Part 8
In Part 8, I explain why I believe MOOCs cannot and will not lead to cost savings in higher education – at least in a nation that values its standard of living. As I’ve noted in previous posts to this...
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MathThink MOOC v4 – Part 9
In Part 9, I admit that my interest in MOOCs is driven by a very Selfish Gene. Why do I devote so much (unpaid) time working on my MOOC? And it is, to be sure, a lot of time, little of it factored in...
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MathThink MOOC v4 – Part 10
In Part 5, the final episode in this series, I talk about my key course design principle, I put forward an argument that in some respects MOOCs may be better than traditional courses, and I show you...
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Do all Americans have the same age?
With a special Bonus Feature: A correct proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem that fits in a Tweet. When the students in my Introduction to Mathematical Thinking MOOC encounter a difficulty with an assignment...
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