{"id":5682,"date":"2013-04-10T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2013-04-10T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:45:49","slug":"friends-has-anyone-taken-a-mooc-online-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/friends-has-anyone-taken-a-mooc-online-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends, has anyone taken a MOOC online class?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Friends, has anyone taken a MOOC online class? Is there a big difference with a physical class? Does the absence of 3-D physical contact lower motivation?Universities seem more metastatic in their bureaucracies than government &#8230; and unchecked. Back-of-the-envelope: It could be that universities cost between 5 and 20x more to operate than the private. When I was at U Mass Amherst, I calculated that the costs of having someone clean my office there were 10-20 times that of my home office. And they would not let me use a private cleaning service.And there is a huge amount of money spent of funding people to &#8220;do research&#8221; that is not research, but just something totally cosmetic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151432015938375&amp;id=13012333374\">Friends, has anyone&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, has anyone taken a MOOC online class? Is there a big difference with a physical class? Does the absence of 3-D physical contact lower motivation?Universities seem more metastatic in their bureaucracies than government &#8230; and unchecked. Back-of-the-envelope: It could be that universities cost between 5 and 20x more to operate than the private. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[707],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-mooc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}