Lisa Wressell March 21, 2012 Western Oregon University CSE 619 Final Paper Massively Open Introduction In the CSE 619 course my classmates and I worked together to write and self-publish a book about massive open online classes (MOOCs). Coauthoring the book...
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Lisa Wressell March 21, 2012 Western Oregon University CSE 619 Final Paper Massively Open Introduction In the CSE 619 course my classmates and I worked together to write and self-publish a book about massive open online classes (MOOCs). Coauthoring the book Massively Open: How Massive Open Online Courses Changed the World taught me a lot about MOOCs (a subject I was already passionate about) and about how to write and publish a book in 10 weeks. I was the lead author in chapters 8 and 9 and the contributing author to chapter 1. This paper contains both my contributions to Massively Open along with my personal views on MOOCs not included in the book. Support Role: Chapter 1 (What's up with MOOCs?) What is a MOOC? According to Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel from Hybrid Pedagogy (A Digital Journal of Teaching and Technology, 2012), a MOOC is "not a thing. A MOOC is a strategy. What we say about MOOCs cannot possibly contain their drama, banality, incessance, and proliferation. The
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