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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) "aren’t like the existing structures we know—they are neither traditional lecture courses nor traditional distance-learning models. The 'massive' component changes every aspect of what we are attempting to do and requires innovative approaches, especially for a course on freshman composition," writes Karen Head, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. She is writing a regular guest column as she helps develop a MOOC for first-year writing. Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 21, 2013
