Julia Wilkowski
Instructional Designer, Google, Inc.
Julia Wilkowski has worked on the Sales Training teams supporting Asia Pacific & Latin America and the Americas as well as the Engineering Education team. Recent projects have included piloting a mobile learning solution, using an alternate reality game to teach sales skills, and implementing Web 2.0 technologies wherever possible. She has presented at numerous conferences. Prior to Google, Julia trained astronauts at NASA, and worked as an instructional designer at Informatica. Julia holds a Master’s degree in Education with a focus on Instructional Technology from San Jose State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience.
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Moving Beyond MOOCs: Experiments in Non-traditional Product Education
There is considerable controversy over MOOCs, and their value is still a matter for debate. However, there are examples of MOOCs that work. The question is, why? Another question is, how? The engineering education team at Google has found strategies for creating MOOCs that appear to be effective, and in this article you will find some of their “lessons learned.”