Share Paper: Teaching Creative Writing to the World: Showcasing the Liberal Arts in a MOOC Landscape of Business and Tech
Monday, November 14 11:35-11:55 AM Whitney
Abstract: In partnership with Coursera, over 1.6 million students have enrolled in 21 Wesleyan MOOCs across a diverse curriculum including film, classics, math, economics, and psychology. Most recently, we have launched a Specialization (or sequence of courses) for Creative Writing, a topic that did not exist in the MOOC world previously. Drawing on our reputation for excellence and annual Writer’s Conference, we created a unique design philosophy to bring this intensely personal – and intensely subjective – discipline to a wide audience. In this presentation, we discuss inception, development, launch, and progression of our Specialization, including our metrics for success. We ...