A tall glass of MOOC

The subject of MOOCs has come up often this term as an increasing number of institutions offer content and educational researchers attempt to study the possibilities, limitations, and pedagogical challenges of this movement. Some of the courses do not have the level of interaction I would prefer, but many are project based and would provide a tangible result of my emerging knowledge. 

Another nice thing is that many seem to be timed at about seven weeks, which works perfectly as an inter-term activity for my UMUC course load  I think I will start with the introduction to computer science from Udacity (www.undacity.com). While my education supports knowledge of applying technology to education; building that technology remains a skill opportunity.

Plus, I am gaining the skills necessary to examine and evaluate the DE experience and the course design through my OMDE studies. I will have my own personal research project with a completely biased and statistically ridiculous sample size of one; one with a conflict of interest.