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Bernard Cooperman University of Maryland cooperma@umd

Bernard Cooperman University of Maryland cooperma@umd.edu. MOOCs are a Technology. Will pass like reel-to-reel tape recorders and structured learning (FSI language programs). MOOCs are a Technology. Will pass like reel-to-reel tape recorders and structured learning (FSI language programs)

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Bernard Cooperman University of Maryland cooperma@umd

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  1. Bernard Cooperman University of Maryland cooperma@umd.edu

  2. MOOCs are a Technology • Will pass like reel-to-reel tape recorders and structured learning (FSI language programs)

  3. MOOCs are a Technology • Will pass like reel-to-reel tape recorders and structured learning (FSI language programs) • Expensive • Therefore seeks/creates its own justifications • Viability requires profitability (scale) • Creates it own presentation possibilities and limitations

  4. Marketing & Research • Emphasize student learning • Short attention span • Constant feedback (interactivity)

  5. Marketing & Research • Emphasize student learning • Short attention span • Constant feedback (interactivity)

  6. Does This Work for Humanities • Method & Substance is highly unstructured and experiential • You don’t know a poem; you experience it uniquely.

  7. Crisis of the Humanities • Humanists blame “the next generation” or the “scientist administrators” but this is structural • Consumption of knowledge has changed • Google trivializes memory • Social value of elite practices gone (from playing Bach to handwriting)

  8. What To Do? • MOOCs that address what they can do and universities can’t • E.g., teach language in small structural units à la Kahn Academy • Build up a library of public access resources for students to use outside the course.

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