{"id":4153,"date":"2013-07-25T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2013-07-26T10:34:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T14:34:28","slug":"teaching-a-rooc-re-mixable-open-online-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2013\/07\/teaching-a-rooc-re-mixable-open-online-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching a ROOC – Re-Mixable Open Online Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: <\/strong>Since this post mentions Blackboard, I want to remind everyone that I do work for Blackboard as the Sakai Chief Strategist in addition to working as a faculty member for the University of Michigan. The statements in this post are my own and do not reflect any official Blackboard positions or directions.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have been having great fun teaching my Internet History, Technology, and Security (IHTS)<\/a> MOOC using Coursera. The class is now on its third iteration with about 120,000 students total across all three sections of the course and about 12,000 students earning certificates. I love how the large-scale of these courses allows me to touch so many people around the world. I can hold office hours in any large city in the world and meet and interact with my students. This is a video filmed by one of my students (Nico Morrison<\/a>) where he captured about 15 minutes of the actual conversations that happen in a typical office hours:<\/p>\n