Invasion of the MOOCS : the promises and perils of massive open online courses / edited by Steven D. Krause and Charles Lowe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krause, Steven D.

Lowe, Charles, 1848-1931

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

MOOCs (Web-based instruction).

Web-based instruction.

Education, Higher--Computer-assisted instruction.

Education, Higher.

Distance education.

Physical Description:

xiv, 238 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2014]

Summary:

Twenty-one essays written by "faculty who developed and taught MOOCs in 2012 and 2013, students who participated in those MOOCs, and academics and observers who have first hand experience with MOOCs and higher education"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction : building on the tradition of CCK08 / Charles Lowe

MOOCology 1.0 / Glenna L. Decker

Framing questions about MOOCs and writing courses / James E. Porter

A MOOC or not a MOOC : ds106 questions the form / Alan Levine

Why we are thinking about MOOCs / Jeffrey T. Grabill

The hidden costs of MOOCs / Karen Head

Coursera : fifty ways to fix the software (with apologies to Paul Simon) / Laura Gibbs

Being present in a university writing course : a case against MOOCs / Bob Samuels

Another colonialist tool? / Aaron Barlow

MOOCversations : commonplaces as argument / Jeff Rice

MOOC feedback : pleasing all the people? / Jeremy Knox, Jen Ross, Christine Sinclair, Hamish Macleod, and Siân Bayne

More questions than answers : scratching at the surface of MOOCs in higher education / Jacqueline Kauza

Those moot MOOCs : my MOOC experience / Melissa Syapin

MOOC assigned / Steven D. Krause

Learning how to teach ... differently : extracts from a MOOC instructor's journal / Denise K. Comer

MOOC as threat and promise / Edward M. White

A MOOC with a view : how MOOCs encourage us to reexamine pedagogical doxa / Kay Halasek, Ben McCorkle, Cynthia L. Selfe, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Susan Delagrange, Jennifer Michaels, and Kaitlin Clinnin

Putting the U in MOOCs : the importance of usability in course design / Heather Noel Young

"I open at the close" : a post-MOOC meta-happening reflection and what I'm going to do about that / Elizabeth D. Woodworth

Here a MOOC, there a MOOC / Nick Carbone

Writing and learning with feedback machines / Alexander Reid

Learning many-to-many : the best case for writing in digital environments / Bill Hart-Davidson

After the invasion : what's next for MOOCs? / Steven D. Krause.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1602355339

9781602355330

9781602355347

1602355347

OCLC:

874043961

Publisher Number:

99962577373