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Honors as a Laboratory of Experimentation: Taylor Branch's The King Years and the Making of a MOOC

Saturday, November 9, 2013: 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM
Napoleon A2 (Sheraton New Orleans Hotel)
Taylor Branch , University of Baltimore
Brian Etheridge , University of Baltimore
Elizabeth Nix , University of Baltimore
Paul Walsh , University of Baltimore
The presenters discuss an innovative honors offering at the University of Baltimore in the spring of 2013. Focused on the civil rights movement and taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the course was an experiment to see how an honors seminar could translate into a future Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).