https://csedpodcast.org/tags/mooc/Recent content in MOOC on CS-Ed Podcast Home PageHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USMon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/season1_episode5/Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/season1_episode5/In this episode, we talk with Armando Fox, Professor of Computer Science and Faculty Advisor to the MOOCLab at UC Berkeley. With David Patterson, he co-designed and co-taught Berkeley’s first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Engineering Software as a Service,” offered through edx.org. It is now a professional certificate in “Agile Development Using Ruby on Rails. Our conversation touched many topics involving MOOCs. We discussed the history of MOOCs, how he got into it, creating Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs), how MOOCs call into question established teaching habits, some experiments he’s planning that break those habits, and how to get student buy-in when using a MOOC in the classroom.