RCC Postdoc Seminar: Potentialities and problems of online master's degree

Online education is growing up exponentially. Harvard and MIT created edX in 2012, a platform which offers hundreds of free online. Millions of students take one of these courses annually. Hundreds of universities around the world, including Harvard, also offer paid online degrees. Some of these degrees are official and allow the student to pursue, in case of accomplishing it, a superior degree level. Online education has different advantages, but it has also several noteworthy problems, mainly easy cheating. The speaker has been managing and mentoring for years in several online master´s degrees. He will explain in a practical way some manners to correctly design the work and the exams of the students.
 

Teaching methods have evolved throughout last decades. In order to learn the different possibilities that Innovative Teaching offers, this seminar will explore how each field can provide ideas that can be applied in other areas. In this way, both participants and assistants will improve their knowledge concerning to how to teach and how to create a better environment in the class, in which students play a more dynamic role. These activities will be held mainly by predoc and postdoc fellows of RCC.

Speaker: Diego González Cadenas. RCC Postdoctoral Fellow. Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School

Sponsors: RCC; Postdocs@RCC.