VCU launches MOOCs

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Richmond Times-Dispatch | Oct 2, 2014 | Karin Kapsidelis
“Vice Provost Gardner Campbell at Virginia Commonwealth University is teaming with other professors and other universities, and joined forces with Christina Engelbart at the Doug Engelbart Institute to design a collaborative MOOC plus the all new Engelbart Scholar Award." See also more background and photos.

Channeling Engelbart: Augmenting Human Education

article featured imageChanneling Engelbart: Augmenting Human Education
Connected Learning Alliance | Sep 15, 2014 | Howard Rheingold
“Gardner Campbell not only teaches the ideas of Doug Engelbart — the visionary who invented the mouse, hypertext and many more of the digital tools so many people use every day — he understands that Engelbart’s technological attempt to “augment human intellect” also ought to be a central goal of pedagogy. Fortunately, [he] is in a good position to pursue this goal in practice.”