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30 avril 2013

Before MOOCs, ‘Colleges of the Air’

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/the-conversation-newheader.pngBy Susan Matt and Luke Fernandez. In 1937, as she lay ill in bed, Annie Oakes Huntington, a writer living in Maine, thought of ways to spend her time. She confided in a letter: “The radio has been a source of unfailing diversion this winter. I expect to enter all the courses at Harvard to be broadcasted.” Huntington was joining in an educational experiment sweeping the country in the 1920s and 30s: massive open on-air courses.
As educators contemplate the MOOCs of our day—massive open online courses—they would do well to consider how earlier generations dealt with technology-enhanced education. Read more...
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