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Slide 2 Vanderbilt alums and Vanderbilt staff also participate in Widom course NOT a Small, Private, Online Course (or SPOC) Social networks glue for larger community of learners: LinkedIn group (67 members), Facebook group (26 members), and Google+ community (16 members) and all branded alike Introduction to Database Learning Community Specific: evaluation to follow, but optimistic Center for Teaching MidSemester evals I have used Widom MOOC and active in-class learning previously, raising overall instructor and course rating means (4.00 4.41 and 3.41 4.24, respectively), and lowering standard deviations! General: any instructor, anywhere, anytime can move a campus course through a self-paced, open, online course (permissions may apply) Multiple instructors at multiple institutions can move multiple campus courses through such a course in close synchrony Other, unaffiliated learners helped as well An anytime MOOC is created when many learners synchronize on a self- paced open online course Douglas H. Fisher Slide 3 Vanderbilt alums and Vanderbilt staff also participate in Widom course NOT a Small, Private, Online Course (or SPOC) Social networks glue for larger community of learners: LinkedIn group (67 members), Facebook group (26 members), and Google+ community (16 members) and all branded alike Introduction to Database Learning Community Specific: evaluation to follow, but optimistic Center for Teaching MidSemester evals I have used Widom MOOC and active in-class learning previously, raising overall instructor and course rating means (4.00 4.41 and 3.41 4.24, respectively), and lowering standard deviations! Douglas H. Fisher General: any instructor, anywhere, anytime can move a campus course through a self-paced, open, online course (permissions may apply) Multiple instructors at multiple institutions can move multiple campus courses through such a course in close synchrony Other, unaffiliated learners helped as well An anytime MOOC is created when many learners synchronize on a self- paced open online course Slide 4 Vanderbilt alums and Vanderbilt staff also participate in Widom course NOT a Small, Private, Online Course (or SPOC) Social networks glue for larger community of learners: LinkedIn group (67 members), Facebook group (26 members), and Google+ community (16 members) and all branded alike Introduction to Database Learning Community Specific: evaluation to follow, but optimistic Center for Teaching MidSemester evals I have used Widom MOOC and active in-class learning previously, raising overall instructor and course rating means (4.00 4.41 and 3.41 4.24, respectively), and lowering standard deviations! Douglas H. Fisher General: any instructor, anywhere, anytime can move a campus course through a self-paced, open, online course (permissions may apply) Multiple instructors at multiple institutions can move multiple campus courses through such a course in close synchrony Other, unaffiliated learners helped as well An anytime MOOC is created when many learners synchronize on a self-paced open online course