MAKER: Applications in Do-It-Together, Environmental Monitoring Technologies - Student Projects from an Interdisciplinary, Flipped, Service Learning, Makerspace Course

摘要

Higher education is under threat. First, costs for potential students keep rising and are substantial. Second, in recent years the emergence of zero- or low-cost competing Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs offered by organizations like Coursera or EdX, with a goal of teaching large numbers of students through automated learning modules and testing. These phenomena lead to a critical question: What is the value-add of an on-campus experience that cannot be achieved through these emerging online, low-cost programs?