My Experience Teaching a MOOC

In an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education, President Michael S. Roth reflects on his experience teaching a massive open online course, called, “The Modern and the Postmodern,” on Coursera. The course might have been labeled, “course least likely to become a MOOC,” he writes, yet, “I was intrigued, though, by the prospect of sharing my class with a large, international group of people who wanted to study.”