Massive Open Online Courses

Are MOOCs a catalyst for reimagining education, a sign of the increased corporatization of the education sector, or merely a well-publicized but passing trend? Massive Open Online Courses shares insights from multiple stakeholders on what MOOCs are now and could eventually become, providing those in higher education as well as K-12, military, government, and corporate training with an authoritative source on a wide range of key issues surrounding MOOCs. MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, are a disruptive technology currently forcing a serious reconceptualization of accreditation, assessment, motivation and retention, technology-based instruction, and the overall student experience. In this timely volume, Paul Kim brings together experts from higher education, business, law, learning analytics and other relevant areas to provide an evenhanded, research-based positioning of MOOCs within the existing educational technology landscape and a base for understanding whether they could reshape the future of education.

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Paul Kim is the Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Dr. Kim serves on the Board of Directors of WestEd, the Committee on Grand Challenges in International Development for the National Academies of Science, and the advisory committee for the National Science Foundation's Education and Human Resources Directorate.

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Introduction

Paul Kim

Chapter 1: The Anatomy of MOOCs

Jane E. Klobas, Bruce Mackintosh, and Jamie Murphy

Chapter 2: MOOC pedagogy

Sian Bayne and Jen Ross

Chapter 3: To MOOC or not to MOOC? University decision-making and agile governance for educational innovation

Jeff Haywood and Hamish Macleod

Chapter 4: Enter the Anti-MOOCs: The Reinvention of Online Learning as a Form of Social Commentary

Larry Johnson and Samantha Adams Becker

Chapter 5: Developing a Sustainable MOOC Business Model

Victor Hu

Chapter 6: The Subject Matters: MOOCS and Relevancy

Dennis Yang and Meg Evans

Chapter 7: NovoEd, a Social Learning Environment

Farnaz Ronaghi, Amin Saberi, and Anne Trumbore

Chapter 8: MOOCs, Copyright, and the Many Meanings of "Open"

Samantha Bernstein

Chapter 9: Educating Educators: Designing MOOCs for Professional Learning

Glenn M. Kleiman, Mary Ann Wolf, and David Frye

Contributing Authors

Index