Slide 2 Vanderbilt alums and Vanderbilt staff also participate
in Widom course NOT a Small, Private, Online Course (or SPOC)
Social networks glue for larger community of learners: LinkedIn
group (67 members), Facebook group (26 members), and Google+
community (16 members) and all branded alike Introduction to
Database Learning Community Specific: evaluation to follow, but
optimistic Center for Teaching MidSemester evals I have used Widom
MOOC and active in-class learning previously, raising overall
instructor and course rating means (4.00 4.41 and 3.41 4.24,
respectively), and lowering standard deviations! General: any
instructor, anywhere, anytime can move a campus course through a
self-paced, open, online course (permissions may apply) Multiple
instructors at multiple institutions can move multiple campus
courses through such a course in close synchrony Other,
unaffiliated learners helped as well An anytime MOOC is created
when many learners synchronize on a self- paced open online course
Douglas H. Fisher Slide 3 Vanderbilt alums and Vanderbilt staff
also participate in Widom course NOT a Small, Private, Online
Course (or SPOC) Social networks glue for larger community of
learners: LinkedIn group (67 members), Facebook group (26 members),
and Google+ community (16 members) and all branded alike
Introduction to Database Learning Community Specific: evaluation to
follow, but optimistic Center for Teaching MidSemester evals I have
used Widom MOOC and active in-class learning previously, raising
overall instructor and course rating means (4.00 4.41 and 3.41
4.24, respectively), and lowering standard deviations! Douglas H.
Fisher General: any instructor, anywhere, anytime can move a campus
course through a self-paced, open, online course (permissions may
apply) Multiple instructors at multiple institutions can move
multiple campus courses through such a course in close synchrony
Other, unaffiliated learners helped as well An anytime MOOC is
created when many learners synchronize on a self- paced open online
course Slide 4 Vanderbilt alums and Vanderbilt staff also
participate in Widom course NOT a Small, Private, Online Course (or
SPOC) Social networks glue for larger community of learners:
LinkedIn group (67 members), Facebook group (26 members), and
Google+ community (16 members) and all branded alike Introduction
to Database Learning Community Specific: evaluation to follow, but
optimistic Center for Teaching MidSemester evals I have used Widom
MOOC and active in-class learning previously, raising overall
instructor and course rating means (4.00 4.41 and 3.41 4.24,
respectively), and lowering standard deviations! Douglas H. Fisher
General: any instructor, anywhere, anytime can move a campus course
through a self-paced, open, online course (permissions may apply)
Multiple instructors at multiple institutions can move multiple
campus courses through such a course in close synchrony Other,
unaffiliated learners helped as well An anytime MOOC is created
when many learners synchronize on a self-paced open online
course