MOOCs / (Record no. 73389)
[ view plain ]
000 -LEADER | |
---|---|
fixed length control field | 03713nam a2200541 i 4500 |
001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
control field | 6940407 |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
control field | 20220712204830.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
fixed length control field | 151224s2014 mau ob 001 eng d |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 9780262322980 |
-- | electronic |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
-- | ebook |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
-- | pbk. : alk. paper |
082 00 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Call Number | 371.33/44678 |
100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
Author | Haber, Jonathan, |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | MOOCs / |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Number of Pages | 1 PDF (xiv, 227 pages). |
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
Series statement | Mit press essential knowledge |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc | The New York Times declared 2012 to be "The Year of the MOOC" as millions of students enrolled in massive open online courses (known as MOOCs), millions of investment dollars flowed to the companies making them, and the media declared MOOCs to be earth-shaking game-changers in higher education. During the inevitable backlash that followed, critics highlighted MOOCs' high dropout rate, the low chance of earning back initial investments, and the potential for any earth-shaking game change to make things worse instead of better. In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Jonathan Haber offers an account of MOOCs that avoids both hype and doomsaying. Instead, he provides an engaging, straightforward explanation of a rare phenomenon: an education innovation that captures the imagination of the public while moving at the speed of an Internet startup. Haber explains the origins of MOOCs, what they consist of, the controversies surrounding them, and their possible future role in education. He proposes a new definition of MOOCs based on the culture of experimentation from which they emerged, and adds a student perspective -- missing in most MOOC discussion. Haber's unique Degree of Freedom experiment, during which he attempted to learn the equivalent of a four-year liberal arts degree in one year using only MOOCs and other forms of free education, informs his discussion. Haber urges us to avoid the fallacy of thinking that because MOOCs cannot solve all educational challenges they are not worth pursuing, and he helps us understand what MOOCs -- despite their limitations -- still offer the world. His book is required reading for anyone trying to sort out the competing claims, aspirations, and accusations that color the MOOC debate. |
856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6940407 |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | eBooks |
264 #1 - | |
-- | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
-- | MIT Press, |
-- | [2014] |
264 #2 - | |
-- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
-- | IEEE Xplore, |
-- | [2014] |
336 ## - | |
-- | text |
-- | rdacontent |
337 ## - | |
-- | electronic |
-- | isbdmedia |
338 ## - | |
-- | online resource |
-- | rdacarrier |
588 ## - | |
-- | Description based on PDF viewed 12/24/2015. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
-- | MOOCs (Web-based instruction) |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
-- | Distance education. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
-- | Web-based instruction. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
-- | Computer-assisted instruction. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
-- | Educational technology. |
No items available.