{"235481":{"#nid":"235481","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Head on MOOCs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We frequently hear this topic talked about in terms of \u0027disruption,\u0027 a word I really disdain,\u0022 wrote \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/head\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKaren Head\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0022I wonder how such a term\u2014meaning disorder, turmoil, destruction\u2014became the preferred way to talk about improving education. Why haven\u2019t we gravitated instead to words like augment, extend, progress, or strengthen?\u0022 Head, a professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, reflected on her experience teaching a MOOC in the Chronicle of Higher Education. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESource: \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/lessons-learned-from-a-freshman-composition-mooc\/46337\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EChronicle of Higher Education\u003C\/a\u003E, September 6, 2013\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27885","created_gmt":"2013-09-09 13:14:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:37","author":"Jennifer Teeter","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Tianyu Wang","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/author\/khead","dateline":{"date":"2013-09-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-09-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}