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An Educational Gift from the Internet By Andrew G. Kadar, MD F or continuing education, or just to satisfy your curiosity, you can now easily access free university-level teaching on the Internet. The classes, called Massive Online Open Courses, or MOOCs, are provided directly by universities and through several companies that act as consolidators. The first few MOOCs came online in 2008; by 2012 their number and variety had blossomed. Anyone can register and watch lectures that are similar or identical to what professors deliver in their classrooms. Discussion forums enable students to ask questions, enhancing the interactive experience that would otherwise be missing in an all-online learning environment. If the questions become too numerous to be answered by the instructors, crowd-sourcing technology Dr. Kadar is an attending can enable students to vote on which ones they want addressed. This is one physician and assistant example of the many innovative solutions inspired by the rapid expansion of professor of anesthesiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. this novel form of mass education. He graduated from the Yale University School of Medicine How massive are these classes? A sociology MOOC taught by a Princeton and completed his residency professor enrolled 40,000 students. Another on artificial intelligence from training in anesthesiology Stanford signed up 160,000. at Stanford University and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is an associate Where Can You Find MOOCs? editor of the CSA Bulletin . Many universities have joined the movement and offer MOOCs. Check out your alma mater by going on its website. It's probably teaching free classes online. For a wider selection, try the consolidators that bring together courses from many universities. The three largest are Coursera (https://www.coursera. org), currently offering 554 courses, Udacity (https://www.udacity. com), listing 33 classes, and edX (https://www.edx.org), offering 110. You can find lectures in a large variety of subjects ranging from astronomy to zoology, from the arts to finance and history. Many courses cover subjects Winter 2014 | 39  https://www.coursera.org https://www.coursera.org https://www.udacity.com https://www.edx.org https://www.udacity.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of California Society of Anesthesiologists Bulletin 62-4

Airliner Crashes and Patient Handoffs — Is There a Connection?
It Is a New Day
LPAD Gears Up for a New Year
Full House? Playing Political Poker ‘Under the Dome’
CSA FALL SEMINAR 2013: ANOTHER HAWAIIAN SUCCESS
The ASA Annual Meeting
UPCOMING CSA ANESTHESIA SEMINARS
Is ‘HAL’ Coming to a GI Suite Near You?
Bookending Propofol — A Technique to Avoid PONV
Process and Outcome: Lessons from Fountain Valley
An Educational Gift from the Internet
A Major Challenge to Your Practice from Sacramento
Propofol Dreams: Of Nightmares and Déjà Vu?
NEW MEMBERS
CALIFORNIA AND NATIONAL NEWS
Fall 2013

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