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Tag Archives: 207x
And then we came to the end, a few post #MOOC musings
This past semester was…hectic. I could add many other adjectives with differing connotations to that sentence, but needless to say, teaching Wellesley’s first MOOC course, coupled with ordinary professional obligations, coupled with a lot of life, coupled with a few … Continue reading
207x snapshot #2 : Education level
Another quick snapshot of the student body in 207x. Again, these data are not quite complete, as they are missing ~2000 “late” enrollees. Nevertheless it is an interesting portrait. This is a chart showing the highest level of education achieved … Continue reading
MOOCs: Teaching as social action
Teaching is a social action. The interaction within a class between students, the connection between teacher and students, the context in which such conversations take place…all of these are part of the social reality that reflects teaching. One of the … Continue reading
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Me talking about MOOCs, liberal arts education, and 207x
I gave a talk last week on campus about my course, the new WellesleyX initiative, and the relationship between MOOCs and a traditional liberal arts education. You can watch a complete cut of the video here.
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207x snapshot: Year of birth
I will be doing a series of quick snapshots of my MOOC, 207x (Introduction to Human Evolution), throughout the semester. I wanted to begin with one showing the self-reported year of birth of the enrolled students. This is actually missing … Continue reading
The minimum evidence necessary to demonstrate evolution
Each week in Wellesley 207x I will be providing my students with a “thought question for the weekend” related to that week’s course content. Students are invited to provide their responses on the discussion forums. These responses are not graded, … Continue reading
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Tagged 207x, evolution, thought question for the weekend
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A worldwide audience
I promise to not write solely about my EdX course, but…it is live as of this morning. And in the first three hours of being live, we have had students posting in the discussion forum from every continent outside of … Continue reading
Set to go live, Wellesley 207x and questions of scale…
In two days, Wellesley 207x – Introduction to Human Evolution, will go live. The course is the culmination of a fairly frenzied amount of work over the past three months, and I am excited to see that work actually reach … Continue reading
Laetoli, Boston-style
How do you film a class segment about the Laetoli footprint trail without going to Tanzania to film? By going to the beach, of course! Laetoli, if you are not aware, is the ~3.5-3.6 million year old site in Tanzania, … Continue reading
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Tagged 207x, afarensis, Australopithecus, footprints, Laetoli
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Creating scientific knowledge within an evolutionary framework
In my class today, we are talking about how you create knowledge regarding human evolution. We will discuss, in brief, how we know what we know about the world around us. In that context, we will talk about how scientific … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution, Teaching
Tagged 207x, anthropology as science, epistemology, four-field anthropology, science, WCAnth207
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