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...
Tagged: MOOCs
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...
video: why experimental poetry & online teaching go well together
Why experimental poetry is well suited to remote/online teaching:
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...
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...