{"id":56533,"date":"2013-04-05T17:52:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T22:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/?p=56533"},"modified":"2013-04-05T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T22:52:37","slug":"do-moocs-really-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/2013\/04\/05\/do-moocs-really-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Do MOOCs really work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/files\/2013\/03\/MOOCbetterwordbubble1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-56561\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/files\/2013\/03\/MOOCbetterwordbubble1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a>Does teaching 10,000 students or more online really work? There has been a lot of hype about the effectiveness of massive open online classes (also know as &#8220;MOOCs&#8221;). <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> conducted the largest survey of professors who have taught MOOCs and shows that the process is time-consuming but, according to the instructors, often successful!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full article &#8220;<a title=\"The Minds Behind the MOOCs\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC\/137905\/?cid=wc#id=overview\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Minds Behind the MOOCs<\/em><\/a>&#8221; by Steven\u00a0Kolowich that contains the survey results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does teaching 10,000 students or more online really work? There has been a lot of hype about the effectiveness of massive open online classes (also know as &#8220;MOOCs&#8221;). The Chronicle of Higher Education conducted the largest survey of professors who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/2013\/04\/05\/do-moocs-really-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1864,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[3141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-instructors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2U0PY-eHP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 22:01:32","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56533"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56638,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56533\/revisions\/56638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}