Behind the MOOC Harassment Charges That Stunned MIT

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 23, 2015 @08:32AM from the professors-behaving-badly dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The complainant in a sexual harassment case has come forward and told her story about what happened when she was a student in a MOOC led by a rockstar professor. "It would take almost a year before Harbi, with the help of MIT’s investigators, said she came to understand that Lewin’s interest in her was not motivated by empathy, and that their first conversations included inappropriate language. Shortly after contacting her, Harbi said, Lewin quickly moved their friendship into uncomfortable territory, and she was pushed to participate in online sexual role-playing and send naked pictures and videos of herself."

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Popcorn time! by serviscope_minor · 2015-01-23 08:36 · Score: 3, Funny

Woo hoo!
Another ahrassment thread. I'm here with a big bag of popcorn and ready to post.
Wiggle out of this one, harassment denialists!

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1. Re: Popcorn time! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-01-23 09:23 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You know it is the modern age when:
  If a man talks dirty to a woman it is sexual harrasement
  If a woman talks dirty to a man it is 4.99/minute
Re:Not trying to excuse what he did by Anonymous Coward · 2015-01-23 08:51 · Score: 5, Funny

that's harassment.
... and it took her a year to realize that it was harassment. But once she finally figured out what happened, MIT was stunned!