My modern experience teaching a MOOC

By Michael S Roth, The Chronicle of Higher Education. My Coursera course, “The Modern and the Postmodern”, might have been labelled “course least likely to become a MOOC”. In many ways, it is an old-fashioned ‘great books’ course, although I prefer to call it a ‘good-enough books’ course, and in the 20 years I've been teaching it, it has always relied heavily on student interaction in the classroom. This is an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, America’s leading higher education publication. It is presented here under an agreement with University World News. Read more...