In a nutshell: This MOOC on the civil rights movement is a big deal, because most MOOC-talk we’ve seen in this “Year of the MOOC” has been about STEM, not humanities, and has focused on the economics of MOOCs, not the educational opportunities.
New MOOC Expands Civil Rights Instruction – Higher Educationby Jamaal Abdul-Alim Civil rights historian and award-winning author Taylor Branch is on a mission to make the Civil Rights Movement more prominent in higher education-and he’s teaching a new MOOC on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to do it.
via Diverseeducation