Due to recent presentations I’ve done and feedback from the Inquiry MOOC Leadership Team and workshop presenters, I am changing the name of the Inquiry MOOC to a TOOC: Targeted Open Online Course. Since I have no apologies about offering the Inquiry course for anyone other than a teacher of science, it makes sense to called it targeted.
Want to engage students from the minute they first login to a course? Here are some tips to accomplish immediate connection with students.
Here is a list of FAQs in various categories related to online instruction. Continue reading
It seems the MOOC critics are everywhere and with some merit. I have been teaching online since the mid 1990s and have registered for a few MOOCs. I’ll admit that I am among those MOOC pariticipants who has registered, logged in for a few weeks and then
Now that the Inquiry MOOC is completed, data analysis, interpretation and reflection can begin. Jeffrey Pomerantz from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offered a Coursera MOOC entitled Metadata: Organizing and Continue reading
Here’s a post from Holly, the Inquiry MOOC Teaching Assistant:
Hello all, Holly here. Being involved as a TA for the MOOC has been a positive learning experience for me, as it was a new venture into a diverse community of science educators. Continue reading
The Inquiry MOOC is now in its 7th week…about half way through the course. The course opened with 200 participants registering prior to the 1st week. At the end of Week 1, 62 participants submitted a discussion rubric, 31% of those registered. Since then there has Continue reading
I’m not trained in business and have never considered myself to have a “business mind,” 
but I do listen to business/leadership podcasts and read books by Dave Ramsey, Henry Cloud, Malcom Gladwell, John Maxwell and John Townsend, to name a few. I was Continue reading
The MOOC continues to go well. Of the 200 original registrations, between 50-60 have posted discussion rubrics each of the 1st two weeks of class. Approximately 15 students have declared that they are planning to complete the course at Continue reading
The MOOC opened on Monday, September 23 and things seem to be going well. The only glitch was that Open Courses experienced a one and a half hour “system down” episode early Monday evening. We didn’t hear any complaints from Continue reading
