All of Higher Ed. has MOOCs on the mind. As such, I have posted a list of links to some of the more interesting articles over the last year for those curious to know more. As more articles come up, I’ll update the list!
Note: Some of the articles posted by the Chronicle of Higher Education may not be viewable unless you have a Chronicle account. We do have hard copies of the Chronicle in the Library.
June 2012:
“4 Professors Discuss Teaching Free Online Courses for Thousands of Students”
September 2012:
“Stanford U. Releases New Open-Source Online-Education Platform”
“In Colleges’ Rush to Try MOOC’s, Faculty Are Not Always in the Conversation”
October 2012:
“A Pioneer in Online Education Tries a MOOC”
November 2012:
“Welcome to Star Scholar U., Where a Personal Brand Is the Credential”
“American Council on Education May Recommend Some Coursera Offerings for College Credit”
“What Campus Leaders Need to Know About MOOCs”
“Massive Open Online Course” (Educause Library)
“College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All”
“A People’s History of MOOCs”
“Online Educational Delivery Models: A Descriptive View”
December 2012:
“New Guides Aim to Become the Yelp for MOOC’s”
“MOOCs for Credit”
“Size Isn’t Everything: For academe’s future, think mash-ups not MOOC’s”
“New Platform Lets Professors Set Prices for Their Online Courses”
“MOOCs to MOCCs”
“Jump Off the Coursera Bandwagon”
“For Whom Is College Being Reinvented?”
“How Free Online Courses Are Changing the Traditional Liberal Arts Education”
“If We Profs Don’t Reform Higher Ed, We’ll Be Re-Formed (And We Won’t Like It)”
“FemTechNet: The first DOCC,* a Feminist MOOC”
January 2013:
“Improve Your Results with Google’s Advanced Power Searching MOOC”
“Here a MOOC, There a MOOC: But Will It Work for Freshman Composition?”
February 2013:
“The End Is Not Nigh for Colleges”
“Georgia Tech and Coursera Try to Recover From MOOC Stumble”
“The making of a MOOC at the University of Amsterdam”
“Value Evolution, Not Just Revolution, in Higher Ed”
“College Is Dead. Long Live College!”
“A MOOC is not a Thing: Emergence, Disruption, and Higher Education”
“Information Visualization MOOC”
“ ‘MOOC 2.0’ Offers Free, For-Credit Education On Demand; World Education University is the First and Only Free, Degree-Granting, Online College”
“The Higher-Education Lobby Comes to Madison”
“Of MOOCs and Mousetraps”
“All You Can Eat Education” – Infographic
“Why I Teach With Canvas – Video By David Wiley, Ph.D., BrighmanYoung University”
“MOOC Mess”
March 2013:
“MOOCs R Us”
July 2013:
“American MOOC Providers Face International Competition”
“A University’s Offer of Credit for a MOOC Gets No Takers”
“MOOCs and the Arts: A Plea for Slow Education”
“MOOCs and Economic Reality”
“Coursera Snags $43-Million in Venture Capital”
“San Jose State U. Puts MOOC Project with Udacity on Hold”
“All the lonely MOOCers. Where do they all come from?”
August 2013:
“The Feminist Anti-MOOC”
“Sabato’s Kennedy MOOC Has a Companion Book and a TV Special”
“Obama’s Plan Aims to Lower Cost of College”
September 2013:
“Influx of Students From China Puts University to Unexpected Test”
“Google and edX Create a MOOC Site for the Rest of Us”
“A Catholic Case Against MOOCs”
“MIT Will Offer MOOC Curricula, Not Just Single Courses, on edX”
” ‘Farm to Brain’: Locavore Education vs. MOOC ”
“Merlot: JOLT” Vol. 9, No. 2
October 2013:
“Beyond the Hype, Schools Chart a MOOC-Tinted Future”
“An Early Report Card on Massive Open Online Courses”
“Educause Online Review”
“Rebranding: ‘MOOC’ to ‘CaS’ ”
“Higher Education in the Connected Age – 2013 Inforgraphic”
November 2013:
“With Open Platform, Stanford Seeks to Reclaim MOOC Brand”
“A Compendium of MOOC Perspectives, Research and Resources”
“MOOCs Are Largely Reaching Privileged Learners, Survey Finds”
“AAC&U: Massive Open Online Courses, Vol. 99, No. 4”
“MOOCs Move Beyond the Perfect Media Narrative”