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Monday, February 18, 2013

Quick! Somebody Tell the Governor!

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching

Students regularly drop out of massive open online courses before they come to term. For a professor to drop out is less common.
But that is what happened on Saturday in “Microeconomics for Managers,” a MOOC offered by the University of California at Irvine through Coursera. Richard A. McKenzie, an emeritus professor of enterprise and society at the university’s business school, sent a note to his students announcing that he would no longer be teaching the course, which was about to enter its fifth week.

“Because of disagreements over how to best conduct this course, I’ve agreed to disengage from it, with regret,” Mr. McKenzie wrote...

We have a video from the class: 

 

Update: The LA Times version of the story is at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/uc-irvine-business-professor-stops-teaching-midway-in-online-coursera-class.html 

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