by CAT ZAKRZEWSKI, Daily Northwestern
Medill Prof. Owen Youngman always receives a lot of emails just before and after an assignment is due. Because his massive open online course, Understanding Media by Understanding Google, has thousands of students in around the globe, it has resulted in an inundation of emails around the clock. He and his staff of nine former students have handled 12,000 discussion posts in the course’s first two weeks. Such new challenges are par for the course for professors teaching Northwestern’s first three MOOCs and one for-credit Semester Online course. Two more NU for-credit courses will be offered Winter Quarter, continuing the University’s attempt to incorporate a variety of departments in this new form of education.
http://dailynorthwestern.com/2013/10/02/campus/northwestern-begins-online-education-attempts/
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