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Mark Glaser of PBS Mediashift recently pulled together a panel of experts for an online chat about how massive open online courses (MOOCs) are affecting universities and professional education. Some exceprts from the fascinating 40-minute exchange are below.
Rosental Alves, director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas, has been running MOOCs on journalism topics since 2012.
One of the surprising things about these courses is how many non-journalists are taking them, Alves said. There is a hunger for learning the journalistic skills of gathering, verifying and presenting information, he said.
(Many of my 2,000 fellow students were non-journalists when I took the center's course on data visualization offered by Alberto Cairo.)
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Mark Glaser of PBS Mediashift recently pulled together a panel of experts for an online chat about how massive open online courses (MOOCs) are affecting universities and professional education. Some exceprts from the fascinating 40-minute exchange are below.
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One of the surprising things about these courses is how many non-journalists are taking them, Alves said. There is a hunger for learning the journalistic skills of gathering, verifying and presenting information, he said.
(Many of my 2,000 fellow students were non-journalists when I took the center's course on data visualization offered by Alberto Cairo.)
Read more »