{"id":173,"date":"2016-03-07T19:36:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/?page_id=173"},"modified":"2016-04-09T18:55:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T18:55:45","slug":"online-learning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/reading-topics\/online-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dickinson College is not in the MOOC (massive open online course) business, but we have been experimenting with online learning. \u00a0Each summer since 2012, the House Divided Project at Dickinson has been partnering with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/programs-exhibitions\/understanding-lincoln\" target=\"_blank\">Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History<\/a>\u00a0(an organization which focuses on history education and teacher development for K-12 educators) to offer a series of increasingly ambitious online graduate-level classes about the Civil War or Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>Before undertaking this online leap, Prof. Pinsker and his undergraduate students at Dickinson provided a careful look at some of the controversies surrounding online learning in higher education. \u00a0Pinsker posed a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2013\/06\/28\/ten-critical-questions-about-online-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 critical questions<\/a>\u00a0at the outset which he hoped their study might answer. \u00a0Then Russ Allen, &#8217;14, helped begin this initiative\u00a0by examining some articles that put the MOOC controversy into <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2013\/06\/20\/the-mooc-revolution-true-or-deja-vu\/\" target=\"_blank\">historical context<\/a>. \u00a0Leah Miller, &#8217;14, added to the effort at context by reviewing some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2013\/07\/22\/one-course-to-rule-them-all-are-moocs-the-colonialism-of-the-21st-century\/\" target=\"_blank\">most hyperbolic\u00a0claims<\/a> of MOOC advocates. \u00a0Russ Allen returned to the fray with <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2013\/07\/22\/the-absent-professor-grading-assignments-for-moocs\/\" target=\"_blank\">a fascinating piece about grading practices online <\/a>&#8211;a careful dissection of the claims about computer-graded and peer-graded assignments.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think is the future for online learning? \u00a0Is it dying fad, or an essential component of future modes of education? \u00a0Should liberal arts colleges like Dickinson embrace online learning, or position themselves foursquare in opposition to it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dickinson College is not in the MOOC (massive open online course) business, but we have been experimenting with online learning. \u00a0Each summer since 2012, the House Divided Project at Dickinson has been partnering with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/reading-topics\/online-learning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}