MOOCs on the Loose: The Effect of #clmooc on Professional Development Opportunities in the NWP Network

Date: March 12, 2015

Summary: Join organizers and participants in "The Writing Thief" book study group, a MOOC hosted by the San Diego Area Writing Project. Hear why participants and organizers believe MOOCs work, why they are interested in making, and how online learning promotes learning, near and far.

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Henry Aronson, English professor at San Diego City College:

It's really made a huge difference to get the young adults who often don't like English, to play around with creating—and then once they've created—they realize they have something to say, something to express in writing on top of these kind of digital art pieces [or] digital create pieces."