By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
Recent efforts are tweaking the formula for massive open online courses and expanding their reach to new audiences. The MOOC philosophy has always come across as “Go big or go home.” But some of the most interesting experiments occurring right now would better be described as “Divide and conquer.” These undertakings — one an experiment at Harvard (MA) and the other a longer-term commitment at the University of Michigan — are allowing schools to try out new practices from a narrower perspective, while still impacting the broader workings of the institution.
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