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Talk about Teaching: Ways We Teach Featuring MOOC Panel Discussion

By Lisa Forrest and Ted Fondak

May 7, 2015

In partnership with edX, the online learning initiative created by Harvard and MIT, Hamilton College launched two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) this spring. Over 6,000 participants from over 132 countries were enrolled in courses offered by two of Hamilton's professors: Spirituality and Sensuality: Sacred Objects in Religious Life presented by Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate, and Incarceration's Witnesses: American Prison Writing, presented by Professor of English Doran Larson.

Join Professors Plate and Larson, along with members from HamiltonX, the multi-talented team of professionals who helped develop the courses, on Tuesday, May 12 at noon in SCCT3024 to learn more about creating and teaching a MOOC. What does it take to build a MOOC? What are the challenges of teaching an online course that is open to the entire world? What new perspectives have been uncovered in the process?