{"id":481,"date":"2013-01-15T17:16:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T01:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/politika\/?p=481"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:10:20","slug":"moocs-for-remedial-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2013\/01\/15\/moocs-for-remedial-education\/","title":{"rendered":"MOOCs for remedial education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times continues its blanket coverage of the MOOC phenomenon with a story in today&#8217;s business page: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/15\/technology\/california-to-give-web-courses-a-big-trial.html?_r=0\">California to give web courses a big trial.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The interesting subtext in the story is that use of the MOOCs by San Jose State University isn&#8217;t an initiative intended to replace regular offerings, but is really an attempt to address inadequacies in high school education in the state. \u00a0The institution reports that more than 50% of incoming students fail the basic requirements (raising the question why they were admitted in the first place!).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times continues its blanket coverage of the MOOC phenomenon with a story in today&#8217;s business page: &#8220;California to give web courses a big trial.&#8221; The interesting subtext in the story is that use of the MOOCs by San &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2013\/01\/15\/moocs-for-remedial-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}