Invasion of the MOOCs
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Invasion of the MOOCs

The Promises and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses

  1. 254 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Invasion of the MOOCs

The Promises and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses

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Leading proponents and critics articulate and debate the rapid rise of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) as an educational and open access innovation

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Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781602355330
eBook ISBN
9781602355354

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: Building on the Tradition of CCK08
  6. MOOCology 1.0
  7. Framing Questions about MOOCs and Writing Courses
  8. A MOOC or Not a MOOC: ds106 Questions the Form
  9. Why We Are Thinking About MOOCs
  10. The Hidden Costs of MOOCs
  11. Coursera: Fifty Ways to Fix the Software (with apologies to Paul Simon)
  12. Being Present in a University Writing Course: A Case Against MOOCs
  13. Another Colonialist Tool?
  14. MOOCversations: Commonplaces as Argument
  15. MOOC Feedback: Pleasing All the People?
  16. More Questions than Answers: Scratching at the Surface of MOOCs in Higher Education
  17. Those Moot MOOCs: My MOOC Experience
  18. MOOC Assigned
  19. Learning How to Teach … Differently: Extracts from a MOOC Instructor’s Journal
  20. MOOC as Threat and Promise
  21. A MOOC With a View: How MOOCs Encourage Us to Reexamine Pedagogical Doxa
  22. Putting the U in MOOCs: The Importance of Usability in Course Design
  23. “I open at the close”: A Post-MOOC Meta-Happening Reflection and What I’m Going to Do About That
  24. Here a MOOC, There a MOOC
  25. Writing and Learning with Feedback Machines
  26. Learning Many-to-Many: The Best Case for Writing in Digital Environments
  27. After the Invasion: What’s Next for MOOCs?
  28. Contributors
  29. Index
  30. Back cover

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