Opportunity for START Graduate Students to Record a Video for New MOOC

The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) is developing a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in partnership with Coursera, called New Approaches to Countering Terror. The course will focus on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) policy and programs. START is currently looking for graduate students willing to record 2-3 minute videos to supplement the longer lectures already in production--these videos will serve as teaching cases and each will describe a real-world CVE program or organization. Two such teaching cases are already accounted for--individuals have recorded videos on Singapore's Religious Rehabilitation Group and Saudi Arabia's Prevention, Aftercare, and Rehabilitation Program. We invite anyone interested in participating to propose a teaching case they would like to discuss. People proposing videos need not be researching the programs in question--we are not requesting empirical research on these programs, simply a description of real-world cases that will supplement our research-based lectures.

START's first MOOC has reached nearly 50,000 participants. This is an opportunity to gain exposure as an expert on CVE and/or violent extremism. Please contact Kate Izsak, kworboys@umd.edu, with questions. Compensation will be $150 per lecture.