UW-Madison announced a new Massive Open Online Course Wednesday, which offers local, weekly facilitated meetings to help future and current faculty who teach science, technology, engineering and math become better teachers starting next week.
MOOCs are online courses with large-scale participation that are offered at no cost to those who participate. Credit is not given to students who participate in the courses, which are designed to improve individual learning.
“We’re hoping the online course will allow students to engage with people from around the world, while the local groups connect them to classmates from their own campus,” Kitch Barnicle, the project manager for the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, said in a university statement.
Though enrollment for the new MOOC is unrestricted, the course is geared toward graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The participants will learn different teaching strategies and course planning, which will guide them to become more effective teachers.
