186851 external_news 1359116422 1475893452 In November 2012, I was part of a team that was awarded a grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a MOOC for one of the most ubiquitous of university courses: freshman composition. Over the next five months, I will blog about our process. And I will try to address a central question surrounding the proliferation of massive open online courses. Many people argue that rising technologies could allow us to educate the world more efficiently. My question is, can we educate people more effectively?  Source:  Guest blog post by School of Literature, Media, and Communication Assistant Professor, Karen Head for the Chronicle of Education Wired Campus, January 24, 2013.

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