1. Bernard Cooperman University of Maryland cooperma@umd.edu

2. MOOCs are a Technology Will pass like reel-to-reel tape recorders and structured learning (FSI language programs)

4. MOOCs are a Technology Will pass like reel-to-reel tape recorders and structured learning (FSI language programs) Expensive – Therefore seeks/creates its own justifications – Viability requires profitability (scale) Creates it own presentation possibilities and limitations

5. Marketing & Research Emphasize student learning – Short attention span – Constant feedback (interactivity)

6. Marketing & Research Emphasize student learning – Short attention span – Constant feedback (interactivity)

7. Does This Work for Humanities Method & Substance is highly unstructured and experiential – You don’t know a poem; you experience it uniquely.

8. Crisis of the Humanities Humanists blame “the next generation” or the “scientist administrators” but this is structural Consumption of knowledge has changed – Google trivializes memory – Social value of elite practices gone (from playing Bach to handwriting)

9. What To Do? MOOCs that address what they can do and universities can’t – E.g., teach language in small structural units à la Kahn Academy – Build up a library of public access resources for students to use outside the course.