Invasion of the MOOCs: The Promise and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses
is one of the first collections of essays about the phenomenon of
“Massive Online Open Courses.” Unlike accounts in the mainstream media
and educational press, Invasion of the MOOCs is not written from the
perspective of removed administrators, would-be education
entrepreneurs/venture capitalists, or political pundits. Rather, this
collection of essays comes from 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. These twenty-one essays reflect the complexity of the
very definition of what is (and what might in the near future be) a
“MOOC,” along with perspectives and opinions that move far beyond the
polarizing debate about MOOCs that has occupied the media in previous
accounts. Toward that end,
Invasion of the MOOCs reflects a
wide variety of impressions about MOOCs from the most recent past and
projects possibilities about MOOCs for the not so distant future.
Contributors include Aaron Barlow, Siân Bayne, Nick Carbone, Kaitlin
Clinnin, Denise K. Comer, Glenna L. Decker, Susan Delagrange, Scott
Lloyd DeWitt, Jeffrey T. Grabill, Laura Gibbs, Kay Halasek, Bill
Hart-Davidson, Karen Head, Jacqueline Kauza, Jeremy Knox, Steven D.
Krause, Alan Levine, Charles Lowe, Hamish Macleod, Ben McCorkle,
Jennifer Michaels, James E. Porter, Alexander Reid, Jeff Rice, Jen Ross,
Bob Samuels, Cynthia L. Selfe, Christine Sinclair, Melissa Syapin,
Edward M. White, Elizabeth D. Woodworth, and Heather Noel Young.
About the Editors
