Thursday 7 April 2016

Penn’s Al Filreis Wins a Coursera Outstanding Educator Award

by Jeanne Leong, Penn News

Al Filreis, an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is the recipient of an inaugural Coursera Outstanding Educator Award. Filreis was honored with the Transformation Award, given to an instructor who has contributed the most to the platform’s vision of enabling anyone, anywhere to transform their life through its massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Filreis’ Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, known as ModPo, was among the first humanities courses on the Coursera platform. The introduction to poetry class emphasizes experimental verse, from Dickinson and Whitman to the present.

https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-s-al-filreis-wins-coursera-outstanding-educator-award

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from Educational Technology http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/?p=15489

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