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HarvardX and MITx: Two Years of Open Online Courses Fall 2012-Summer 2014
(MIT Office of Digital Learning; HarvardX Research Committee, 2015-03-30)What happens when well-known universities offer online courses, assessments, and certificates of completion for free? Early descriptions of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have emphasized large enrollments, low ... -
Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
(MIT Office of Digital Learning; HarvardX Research Committee, 2014-09)Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust. -
Teacher Enrollment in MITx MOOCs: Are We Educating Educators?
(MIT Office of Digital Learning; HarvardX Research Committee, 2014-10-27)Participants in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) come from an incredibly diverse set of backgrounds and act with a wide range of intentions (Christensen 2013, Ho 2014). Interestingly, our own recent surveys of 11 MITx ...