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Bruce Jentleson: Reporting Back from a Foreign Policy MOOC

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The map above is evidence that Sanford School Professor Bruce Jentleson's MOOC course on American foreign policy has gone global.

The course on 21st Century American Foreign Policy has more than 20,000 students enrolled, and vast numbers of them are from outside American borders.

In a Huffington Post blog this week, Jentleson gives a report on the course, which is halfway through its six-week curriculum.  The intensity of interaction is not the same as in the classroom, he says, but using Google Hangouts, social meeting and the comments board he says he's getting some great feedback from the students in the non-credit course.

The U.S. State Department is working with Jentleson and Coursera on the class, and he's already partnered with the U.S. embassy in Beijing to do one live session with Chinese students.

"For students I'm sure staring at me and accompanying PowerPoints and visuals gets old," Jentleson writes. "Given the rapidity of innovation and experimentation in these first couple years of online higher-ed, my guess is we'll soon have more options for making the educational experience more dynamic."

To read the full Huffington Post report, click here.