{"id":18892,"date":"2013-12-19T23:08:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T23:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/after-setbacks-online-courses-are-rethought\/"},"modified":"2013-12-19T23:08:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T23:08:20","slug":"after-setbacks-online-courses-are-rethought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/after-setbacks-online-courses-are-rethought\/","title":{"rendered":"After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/11\/us\/after-setbacks-online-courses-are-rethought.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0'>After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fearmyblog.com\/post\/70302028454\/after-setbacks-online-courses-are-rethought\">tacanderson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>MOOCs aren\u2019t broken. Anytime you reduce the friction for people to start something you\u2019re going to see an increase in people not finishing. That\u2019s not a bad thing. It doesn\u2019t even mean they didn\u2019t get what they wanted\/needed out of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What we really need is a MOOC accreditation standard besides the traditional education system. I think the next evolution will be for someone like Khan Academy to team up with physical testing centers to provide supervised testing administration (a key part of the accreditation process).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Universities will fight this of course, but smaller Community Colleges and other alternative education choices should embrace this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>funny. accreditation has been part of the perceived problem that MOOC-rakers would disrupt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought tacanderson: MOOCs aren\u2019t broken. Anytime you reduce the friction for people to start something you\u2019re going to see an increase in people not finishing. That\u2019s not a bad thing. It doesn\u2019t even mean they didn\u2019t get what they wanted\/needed out of it.\u00a0 What we really need is a MOOC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4UI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}