Muppet Lessons for MOOCs
June 8, 2015
“Sesame Street” has delivered lasting educational benefits to millions of children, a pair of economists has reported, adding that lessons from its decades’ of experience might extend to the massive open online courses entering higher education. In Issues, for example, two educators have examined how MOOCs can benefit research universities by blending the strengths of technology for delivering basic information with the person-to-person skills of faculty members for sharpening creative thinking and problem solving in their students.