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without your knowledge that s why i collected the e mails of all my friends that i didn t have already and got out facebook has shot whatever first mover advantage it had to hell as anybody who s studied moocs in the slightest can tell you the stanford computer science department did not invent them those nice canadians did however it was those stanford people who first decided to treat moocs as a market rather than as an educational opportunity i can t remember which came first coursera or udacity but there s no question that coursera at the very least has gone to great lengths to take advantage of its opportunity to be an early mover putting moocs up regardless of quality essentially beta testing them in front of tens of thousands of people because they care more about quantities of students than they do about the quality of the educational experience they were providing think i m being unfair sebastian lousy product thrun essentially admitted this to fast company last year with respect to coursera do you remember the google document that brought down that online learning mooc the superprofessor who quit his mooc in the middle of the course how about the no right answers guy these were not as the mooc messiah squad always like to put it the best of the best the people running these moocs were the worst of the best of the best which actually turns out to be pretty darn bad in some cases well i hate to judge a situation solely through its news coverage but it looks like we have a new entrant in this particular hall of shame from the chronicle a massive open online course on making sense of massive open online courses caused massive confusion when the course content was suddenly deleted and the professor started writing cryptic things on twitter the mooc called teaching goes massive new skills required was taught by paul olivier dehaye a lecturer at the university of zurich offered through coursera the course had been conceived of as a meta mooc designed to help disoriented educators find their feet in the online landscape the course grew out of the author s experiences as an early adopter and advocate of newer technologies such as coursera for online teaching according to a description on coursera s website so far the course has produced chaos rather than clarity all the videos forums and other course materials mysteriously vanished from the website last week as students in the course grappled with the bizarre turn of events mr dehaye offered only vague inscrutable tweets and here s some of the ihe coverage which begins to explain the reasons for this weirdness dehaye appears to be conducting a social media mooc experiment in the most unethical manner the student said in a post that is currently the most viewed on the forum in my opinion his behavior is discrediting the university of zurich as well as coursera as the mystery captivated the post holiday weekend crowd on twitter more details about the potential experiment were unearthed kate bowles a senior lecturer at the university of wollongong found dehaye s name attached to a 2003 paper in which the authors calculated how 100 people could escape from imprisonment when their only means of communication was a lightbulb bowles also found what appeared to be dehaye s contributions to the community blog metafilter i would be interested to hear people s opinions on the idea of using voluntariat work in moocs to further research in mathematics particularly dehaye wrote in one post would this be exploitative what would be good reward systems fame scientific paper internship he later shared his plans to teach the mooc and in response to a thread about the facebook experiment wrote it is hard to pass the message on c oursera that emotions are important in teaching but that expressing those emotions can lead to data collection picking on the superprofessor here seems very very easy so i d rather wonder what responsibility coursera has for this disaster i m sure they d tell you that picking instructors is the job of their partner universities but coursera still has to approve the courses what standards do they use to decide who really is the best of the best judging from the failures i ve listed in this post not too many coursera in its search to attract eyeballs has forgotten that education is not like steel or at least steel rail quality matters frankly i d take any adjunct professor with ten years experience and put them in front of 50 000 people before i d do so with any star in their field after all adjuncts devote practically all their professional time to providing a better educational experience in fact their continued employment often depends upon it many but certainly not all professors at elite universities are too busy doing their own research to care about what s happening in their own classes commercial moocs are simply the logical extension of that kind of negligence professors who really care about the quality of education don t give a damn about the first mover advantage they d rather do their jobs well than become famous or conduct massive social experiments on their students without their consent which probably means that they d never in a million years work for coursera the quality of steel actually did matter for later steel products like structural steel for building skyscrapers and armor plate for battleships i m just talking about the 1870s here update i wrote this post so early this morning that i forgot two really important entries into the coursera hall of shame 1 what i like to think of as the mooc forum circus incident and 2 the truly terrible uc santa cruz mooc that jon wiener described in this article and just in case you don t read wired campus and you should here s steve kolowich s truly weird update on the story behind the truly terrible mooc at hand share this print opens in new window print share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit more email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading comments 8 comments categories adjunct faculty history of technology moocs technology another one bites the dust 7 07 2014 over the weekend i finished the manuscript for refrigerator ok maybe another one bites the dust is a little strong here i have a complete draft now but i still have to do some more tinkering myself stuff along the lines of do i really need that many quotations the answer is always no before i turn the thing in to my extremely supportive editors at bloomsbury a few weeks from now nevertheless it really feels marvelous to have written something like an actual book in just two months here are the two secrets of that success 1 the manuscript is only 25 000 words long which is exactly the length the publisher wanted and 2 i had most of the research done already i think the only new research i did consisted of me going to lowe s and sears and just looking around picking up pamphlets as i went or reading refrigerator reviews on the internet the weird thing though is that without meaning to i seem to have stumbled into what is at least for me a brand new publishing strategy more than one book from the same set of research while some of what i already knew from refrigeration nation went into this new book the most important reason i could write refrigerator so quickly and this derives from reason 2 above is that i had huge chunks of refrigerator related material already written this is the stuff that ended up on the proverbial cutting room floor writing refrigeration nation but it fit well into the kind of book that bloomsbury wanted not too serious and definitely not academic for example most of the part on refrigerators and global warming that i originally wrote for refrigeration nation made no sense in an academic history but fit this book perfectly oddly enough it looks like the next book i get done will be a book devoted entirely to the icebox for johns hopkins again the idea here is to write a short undergraduate level textbook to explain all the very complicated technologies that made the extremely simple technology of the icebox possible on this subject i literally have drawerfuls and databases full of material that never made it into refrigeration nation that s what thirteen years worth of research can do for you to top it all off none other than my older brother the economics professor and his co author invited me to collaborate on at least one math laden study about the effects of the introduction mechanical refrigeration into american cities on public health besides the sheer irony of me producing anything that has math in it for an economics journal no less it just seems like an interesting thing to do as an added benefit it would make our dad very happy so why does all this matter to you well if you re not an historian it might not matter at all however if you happen to be a member of my particular academic cult i think there may be many good reasons not to wait ten years between books here are three of them 1 the money is hopefully way better this way more books means more chances for royalties and speaking fees and as someone in the same salary situation that historiann describes here that s no small benefit 2 researching vertically meaning one subject deeper rather than many subjects lightly gives you a chance to correct your mistakes i m not confessing to mistakes in refrigeration nation at least not yet but there were omissions for example i really wish i could have included the stuff i got about frozen foods for this books in the last one too and 3 since the powers that be at my school now say that i have to justify keeping three courses per semester every single solitary year publishing this way is actually the best way for me to keep more time to write i still have an interesting longterm publishing project my harvey wiley biography maybe by the time i get back to it i ll figure out the perfect angle to get an agent and a trade book contract until that day comes i ll just keep plugging along did you know that you can buy a refrigerator at amazon they don t ship it via ups buy one and they ll call you within three days to set up a drop off date and get one out to you direct from the manufacturer s warehouse share this print opens in new window print share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit more email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading comments 5 comments categories books ice and refrigeration personal refrigeration nation previous entries available now rees has written a solid comprehensive account of the technological creation of cold chains in the united states i wish this book had been available for me to read when i was doing my own research mansel g blackford ohio state university more or 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