I agree—external deadlines help in many cases and it would be interesting to try this out.
In an ideal world I’d love to see a series of MOOC’s on areas such as FAI, rationality, etc though I imagine working out an effective way to test some of the topics would be a challenge. Perhaps as a starting point someone could make a couple of short polls in the guise of a quiz and use voting as the answer?
I agree—external deadlines help in many cases and it would be interesting to try this out.
In an ideal world I’d love to see a series of MOOC’s on areas such as FAI, rationality, etc though I imagine working out an effective way to test some of the topics would be a challenge. Perhaps as a starting point someone could make a couple of short polls in the guise of a quiz and use voting as the answer?
What are the options for free MOOC platforms these days? Moodle’s the only one that comes to mind, and it’s not optimized for MOOCs.
There is OpenMooc and coming up in 3 months will be mooc.org