Sunday, March 23, 2014

Invasion of the MOOCs: The Promises and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses

A new book, with a free pdf version or priced: Krause, S. and Lowe, C. (Eds) (2014) Invasion of the MOOCs: The Promises and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses. Parlor Press. ISBN 978-1-60235-533-0
Many interesting contributions including: "The Hidden Costs of MOOCs" by Karen Head; "MOOC Feedback: Pleasing All the People?" by Jeremy Knox, Jen Ross, Christine Sinclair, Hamish Macleod, and Siân Bayne; "Learning How to Teach … Differently: Extracts from a MOOC Instructor’s Journal" by Denise K. Comer; "MOOC as Threat and Promise" by Edward M. White
The free PDF format is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. The paperback version is $30 (US) and the hardback $60.
http://www.parlorpress.com/invasion_of_the_moocs
Photo by Sheila Webber: Mosaic, Casa Morisca, Granada, March 2014

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