Sixteen new working papers summarize research from the first year of HarvardX and MITx.
Author: Justin Reich
Evaluation in Context: Advice for Educational Non-Profits on Telling Stories with Data
A brief, prepared for grantees of the McCormick Foundation’s Why News Matters program, about developing evaluation programs to improve services and demonstrate to fund-raisers and philanthropists the importance of the work.
The First Year of HarvardX: Public Talk January 21
Timed with the release of the first set of working papers from HarvardX and MITx, Justin Reich is giving a public, livestreamed talk on January 21 at 6pm.
Defining and Teaching News Literacy
The Youth and Media Lab at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society releases a series of four reports about the future of News Literacy.
The Lure of the Technological Sublime: Morozov and the Makers
Evgeny Morosov writes a broader history of the Maker movement with important insights for those hoping to infuse Maker culture into schools.
Picture Pages: The Original Toddler Proto-MOOC
Examine Bill Cosby’s Picture Pages through the discursive lens of pre-literate reader proto-MOOCs.
An Open Letter: Let's Start the Discourse Over on MOOCs
Hoping for a little less rhetoric and a little more nuance in the conversation about high-scale, low-touch technologies in 2014.
Noticing and Blogging with Student-Teachers
Exploring what student-teachers learn from blogging about their classroom observations.
Four Types of MOOC Research
Fishing experiments in the exhaust, experiments in the periphery, MOOC-thropology in the Field, and Design Research in the Core
Reading Grab Bag: Flipped Discussion, iPad Simulations, MOOCs, and the Cognitive Tutor Study
Comments on a PBS NewsHour story, a research study on astronomy simulations targeting understanding of the massive dimensions of space, a readable summary of an important and nuanced research study on a blended learning platform, and a new short e-book on MOOCs.