Speaker: Erland Stevens

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide a scalable means for distributing educational content, but the underlying learning management systems for most MOOCs lack features that foster peer-to-peer interactions. In a drug discovery MOOC offered by Davidson, we needed a means for students both to share molecular structures and to provide feedback on one another’s molecules. Attempts to manage this activity through the discussion board were unsatisfactory. Moving the activity to a WordPress site with a suitable plug-in on a DoOO both simplified management and enriched student interactions.