{"194911":{"#nid":"194911","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Head on MOOC Mousetraps","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMassive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) \u0022aren\u2019t like the existing structures we know\u2014they are neither traditional lecture courses nor traditional distance-learning models. The \u0027massive\u0027 component changes every aspect of what we are attempting to do and requires innovative approaches, especially for a course on freshman composition,\u0022 writes \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/head\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKaren Head\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E. She is writing a regular guest column as she helps develop a MOOC for first-year writing.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/of-moocs-and-mousetraps\/42487\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe Chronicle of Higher Education\u003C\/a\u003E, February 21, 2013\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27663","created_gmt":"2013-02-25 10:20:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:18","author":"Rebecca Rolfe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Tianyu Wang","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/of-moocs-and-mousetraps\/42487","dateline":{"date":"2013-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"34321","name":"composition"},{"id":"5201","name":"Karen Head"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}