Three Reasons Why You Should Join a MOOC

The act of continuing one’s education is a topic that comes up quite frequently at my Toastmasters club. All of us are in it because we want to keep learning and growing. In this post, I wanted to share my experience about continuing my education and hopefully give you another option for pursuing a new… Continue reading Three Reasons Why You Should Join a MOOC

Spring Break! Halfway Through the MIT MOOC

Spring break is here, but it doesn’t really feel like spring or break. For starters, several inches of snow fell in my location last night. Work has piled on over the last few weeks. But most importantly, spring break doesn’t mean much when you’re in a MOOC. I wrote last month about how I signed… Continue reading Spring Break! Halfway Through the MIT MOOC

I Signed Up For My First MOOC

On Monday, I’ll be starting my first MOOC. The MIT Media Lab is offering Learning Creative Learning – “a course for designers, technologists, and educators interested in creative learning” – as a massive open online course in what it is referring to as “a big experiment.” A MOOC is a course put online by some learning… Continue reading I Signed Up For My First MOOC