Dive Brief:
- MOOCs are bringing concerns such as wardrobe, continuity issues and social media buzz to the fore in academia.
- With tens of thousands of students watching one professor, the word “star” is sometimes being used.
- Some professors are being recognized in ways far beyond what they are used to and are receiving more online feedback than they have in the past.
Dive Insight:
Perhaps the best anecdote in the Globe's story is from a professor who teaches a music production MOOC and had a groupie show up during office hours. “She was starstruck,” Loudon Stearns told a reporter. “She asked if she could take her picture with me.”