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Metadata Update #17 Metadata and MOOCs

MOOCs are a hot topic in higher education today.   A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course.   I have been trying out various MOOCs for almost exactly two years since I was first invited to attend one in the fall of 2011 on the Coursera platform which was offered by Professor Ng at Stanford University.   Since then I’ve sampled about a dozen different courses, completely finished 5 and have become a Coursera Community Teaching Assistant for one course. The media has a lot to say about MOOCs and here is a typical example: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303759604579093400834738972.html So, what do MOOCs have to do with metadata and why is it the topic of one of my updates?   I’m taking an amazing class on Metadata via Coursera being offered by Jeffrey Pomerantz of the library school at UNC Chapel Hill:   https://www.coursera.org/#course/metadata .   The course will be starting week 7 next week so it’s nearly over.   But, I recommend keeping an eye out for it on Co