MOOC Pre-History

By Joshua Kim. The following is a guest post written by Randy Riddle, Academic Technology Consultant at Duke's Center for Instructional Technology. On May 19, 1962, the New York Times, in a feature article, congratulated a housewife and mother of two for completing a Bachelor of Science of Arts degree from New York University.  That might not seem significant, but Mrs. Cora Gay Carr earned 54 of the 128 credits required for her degree not in an NYU classroom, but by watching television. Read more...