Abstract
Action teaching is an instructional practice that contributes to peace, social justice, and sustainable living at the same time that it educates students. In this presentation, I describe several action teaching assignments that I gave to students in a Social Psychology MOOC (massive open online course), including a “Day of Compassion” assignment in which thousands of students around the world spent 24 hours living as compassionately as possible, submitted an essay analyzing the experience, and provided each other with peer feedback. Preliminary results suggest that MOOCs offer a cost-effective way to deliver high-impact learning opportunities on a large scale, and that online instructional technologies can deliver these opportunities to people who may otherwise have limited access to higher education.
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MOOC, Psychology, Action Teaching, Technology
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