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