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Faculty and Student Perspectives on MOOCs

Faculty Perspectives

Kolowich, S. (2013). The professors who make the MOOCs. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

Roth, M. (2013). My modern expericence teaching a  MOOC. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

This blog  was written by Keith Devlin, who is a mathematics professor at Stanford, and NPR's Math Guy. It discusses how his view of MOOCs and his own MOOC involved in the process of developing and presenting one.

Student Perspectives

Zutshi, S., O'Hare, S., & Rodafinos, A. (2013). Experiences in MOOCs: The perspective of students. American Journal of Distance Education, 27(4), 218-227. 

Mackness, J., Mak, S., & Williams, R. (2010). The ideals and reality of participating in a MOOC. In: Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L., Hodgson, V., Jones, C., De Laat, M., McConnell, D. and Ryberg, T., eds. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Networked Learning 2010. University of Lancaster, Lancaster, pp. 266-275. 

Bruff, D., Fisher, D., McEwen, K., & Smith, B. (2013). Wrapping a MOOC: Student perceptions of an experiment in blended learning. Journal of Online Teaching and Learning, 9(2), 187-199. 

 

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