Citizen poetics, the book
Al Filreis gave the introductory chapter of his forthcoming book to a machine that makes podcasts from text. The result is not perfectly accurate but does give you a fair, informal sense of what...
Category: MOOCs
New ModPo essay: “Collaborative Close Reading and Global Conversation…”
HERE is a link to a new essay co-written by Anna Strong Safford, Davy Knittle, and me, published in a book of essays, Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom, eds. John Miller and Julie...
1-min. excerpt from an overview on ModPo as a massive open online course
Al visited Coursera headquarters in Mountain View, California, a few years ago and recorded a video in which he gave an overview of ModPo as an open online course (“MOOC”). Here is a one-minute...
MOOCs eight (or so) years later — how do anti-MOOC arguments read today?
This was an argument against massive open online courses (MOOCs) made back in 2014, when this form of learning was relatively new. How does the argument fare today? HERE is a link to a...
ModPo & Sharpened Visions together
When Douglas Kearney visited the Kelly Writers House recently, he took a few moments to meet with Al Filreis and talk about the natural relationship between ModPo and Doug’s “Sharpened Visions” massive open online...
ModPo as “Education Populism” (essay in PMLA)
Wai Chee Dimock, professor of literature at Yale University and editor of PMLA, has published an essay on Kelly Writers House, PennSound and ModPo. HERE is a PDF copy of that essay.
Al Filreis interviewed: podcast on what’s right & wrong with education now
Rolf Potts returned to the Writers House recently and, after leading a public program he and I went into the Wexler Studio to record an episode of his fine podcast series, “Deviate.” It was...
Video: Al Filreis presents about ModPo at Columbia University (January 2014)
This video—about an hour long—features a presentation Al Filreis made at Columbia University about ModPo as an instance of the then-somewhat-new phenomenon: a massive open online course. Most of the talk was really about...
Who we are
Al Filreis is the founder and creator of ModPo (during the spring and summer of 2012) and has been leading ModPo ever since, one of the first humanities MOOCs. More about Al here. Laynie...