{"id":5793,"date":"2013-03-07T10:32:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2013-03-07T10:34:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:34:43","slug":"the-mooc-poem-apologies-to-henry-wadsworth-longfellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=5793","title":{"rendered":"The MOOC poem (apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a giant MOOC, based on a little book<br \/>\nwhen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/06\/opinion\/friedman-the-professors-big-stage.html\">MOOC hype was trending torrid<\/a>,<br \/>\nAnd when MOOCS were good, they were very, very good,<br \/>\nBut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/06\/opinion\/friedman-the-professors-big-stage.html?comments#permid=14\">when they were bad they were horrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Profs stood on their heads, &#8220;students&#8221; watching from bed,<br \/>\nWith nobody by for to hinder;<br \/>\nPeer-graded squalor, <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Dozens-of-Plagiarism-Incidents\/133697\/\">plagiarized<\/a> in the hollers,<br \/>\nAnd drummed all their palms against Winders.<\/p>\n<p>Foundations heard the noise, and thought it was the boys<br \/>\nplaying Coursera and edX,<br \/>\nThey funded and Ventured non-credit adventures,<br \/>\nWhile we all suffer the headX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a giant MOOC, based on a little book when MOOC hype was trending torrid, And when MOOCS were good, they were very, very good, But when they were bad they were horrid. Profs stood on their heads, &#8220;students&#8221; watching from bed, With nobody by for to hinder; Peer-graded squalor, plagiarized in the hollers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-1vr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5801,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}