Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote is in its eighth edition. ... [L]ast summer ... he transformed the class into a free online course . ... [T]hese massive open online courses, or MOOCs, harness the power of their huge
enrollments to teach in new ways, applying crowd-sourcing technology to discussion forums and grading and enabling professors to use online lectures and reserve on-campus class time for interaction with students. ... As with other MOOCs, less than 5 percent of those who enrolled in the sociology course completed it."
--Tamar Lewin, "College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All," New York Times; image from article, with caption: Prof. Mitchell Duneier of Princeton is adapting his classroom teaching style for an online audience of tens of thousands.
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