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		<title>OpenLearning launches courses</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/openlearning-launches-courses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OpenLearning, a new Australian startup, recently announced its first roster of 4 free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): UNSW Computing 1, Observing and Analysing Performance in Sport, and two marketing courses. UNSW Computing 1, an introductory computer science programming taught &#8230; <a href="http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/openlearning-launches-courses/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2351935&#038;post=4204&#038;subd=diyscholar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. social history</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Candida Smith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an illuminating view of life in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, check out Richard Candida-Smith&#8217;s Fall 2012 UC Berkeley course History 124A: The United States from the Late 19th Century to the Eve &#8230; <a href="http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/u-s-social-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2351935&#038;post=4196&#038;subd=diyscholar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still time to enroll in ModPo</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/still-time-to-enroll-in-modpo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Filreis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coursera&#8217;s new course on Modern Poetry (a.k.a. ModPo) is one of the most delightful courses I&#8217;ve listened to in a long time. Most of the credit is due to the professor, Al Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania, who is &#8230; <a href="http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/still-time-to-enroll-in-modpo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2351935&#038;post=4178&#038;subd=diyscholar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When is a course not a course?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that iTunesU has a new section on its front page entitled New Courses. And you may also have noticed that some of these courses are not really true university courses, but are instead collections of lectures &#8230; <a href="http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/when-is-a-course-not-a-course/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2351935&#038;post=4173&#038;subd=diyscholar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in MOOC-land</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/adventures-in-mooc-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Rabkin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To hear Sebastian Thrun tell it, some folks like a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) even better than a real world lecture class. Thrun, the founder of Udacity, discovered that some of his Stanford University students liked the online version &#8230; <a href="http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/adventures-in-mooc-land/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2351935&#038;post=4154&#038;subd=diyscholar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New courses from Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/new-courses-from-harvard-mit-uc-berkeley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More news from the fast moving world of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses): University of California at Berkeley has joined the edX consortium of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the consortium&#8217;s first roster of courses is now online. &#8230; <a href="http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/new-courses-from-harvard-mit-uc-berkeley/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2351935&#038;post=4131&#038;subd=diyscholar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy and Science Fiction</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/fantasy-and-science-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a traditional literature class, students read, discuss and write about their interpretations of literary texts. But can a literature class work as a MOOC &#8212; a Massive Open Online Course with thousands of students? Fantasy and Science Fiction, a &#8230; <a href="http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/fantasy-and-science-fiction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2351935&#038;post=4124&#038;subd=diyscholar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The MOOCs have landed!</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/the-moocs-have-landed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What is a MOOC,&#8221; you ask. It&#8217;s the newly trendy acronym for Massive Open Online Course – the kind of free online course on offer at startups Coursera and Udacity, and by the non-profit Harvard-MIT-UC Berkeley consortium edX. MOOCs differ &#8230; <a href="http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/the-moocs-have-landed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2351935&#038;post=4109&#038;subd=diyscholar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Power Searching with Google</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/power-searching-with-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s happened to all of us. You open your browser for a quick Google search, but but you find yourself sorting through dozens of useless pages. So, the folks at Google have a solution: a short online course entitled Power &#8230; <a href="http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/power-searching-with-google/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2351935&#038;post=4097&#038;subd=diyscholar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guide to MIT Open Courseware</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/guide-to-mit-open-courseware/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been in the free online course business longer than just about everyone else. Its website is chock full of exciting riches, but navigating the site can be a challenge. While MIT groups the courses by &#8230; <a href="http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/guide-to-mit-open-courseware/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2351935&#038;post=4086&#038;subd=diyscholar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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