This the Wall Street Journal's 'report card' on MOOCs, bringing together various analyses of how they're used. Interesting to see the note of Philip Guo's research on the attention span of MOOC students. 6 minutes seems the optimum time for the lecturer to make their point.
I'm a psychologist and, having worked for many years in the design of user-centred products and services, am now Professor of User-Centred Design at University of Reading, UK.
Why Brain Attic?
In 'A Study in Scarlet' Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: "I believe that a man's brain is like a little empty attic, and you stock it with such furniture as you choose....the skillful workman will have...nothing but the tools which will help him doing his work..."
As we now know, Conan Doyle's analogy doesn't quite tell the full story of the brain but nevertheless this blog is a place for me to store notes that, if not logged here, might be forgotten.
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