MOOCs and Their Afterlives
Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Elizabeth Losh
Part 1 Data-Driven Education
1 Beyond Hype, Hyperbole, Myths, and Paradoxes: Scaling Up Participatory Learning and Assessment in a Big Open Online Course
Daniel T. Hickey and Suraj L. Uttamchandani
2 Can MOOCs and SPOCs Help Scale Residential Education while Maintaining High Quality?
Armando Fox
3 Measuring the Impact of a MOOC Experience
Owen R. Youngman
Part 2 Connected Learning
4 Connecting Learning: What I Learned from Teaching a Meta-MOOC
Cathy N. Davidson
5 Toward Peerogy
Howard Rheingold
6 The Learning Cliff: Peer Learning in a Time of Rapid Change
Jonathan Worth
7 Reimagining Learning in CLMOOC
Mia Zamora
Part 3 Openness and Critical Pedagogy
8 Feminist Pedagogy in the Digital Age: Experimenting Between DOCCs and MOOCs
Adeline Koh
9 Epistemologies of Doing: Engaging Online Learning through Feminist Pedagogy
Radhika Gajjala, Erika M. Behrmann, Anca Birzescu, Andrew Corbett, and Kayleigh Frances Bondor
10 Haven’t you ever heard of Tumblr? FemTechNet’s Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC), Pedagogical Publics, and Classroom Incivility
Jasmine Rault and T. L. Cowan
11 Open Education as Resistance: MOOCs and Critical Digital Pedagogy
Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel
12 Opening Education, Linking to Communities: The #InQ13 Collective’s Participatory Open Online Course (POOC) in East Harlem
Jessie Daniels, Polly Thistlethwaite, and Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz
Part 4 The Pathos of the MOOC Moment
13 Digital Universalism and MOOC Affects
Elizabeth Losh
14 The Prospects and Regrets of an EdTech Gold Rush
Alex Reid
15 Always Alone and Together: Three of My MOOC Student Discussion and Participation Experiences
Steven D. Krause
Part 5 MOOC Critiques
16 The Open Letter to Michael Sandel and Some Thoughts about Outsourced Online Teaching
The San José State Philosophy Department
17 The Secret Lives of MOOCs
Ian Bogost
18 MOOCs, Second Life, and the White Man’s Burden
Siva Vaidhyanathan
19 Putting the “C” in MOOC: Of Crises, Critique, and Criticality in Higher Education
Nishant Shah
Contributors
Introduction
Elizabeth Losh
Part 1 Data-Driven Education
1 Beyond Hype, Hyperbole, Myths, and Paradoxes: Scaling Up Participatory Learning and Assessment in a Big Open Online Course
Daniel T. Hickey and Suraj L. Uttamchandani
2 Can MOOCs and SPOCs Help Scale Residential Education while Maintaining High Quality?
Armando Fox
3 Measuring the Impact of a MOOC Experience
Owen R. Youngman
Part 2 Connected Learning
4 Connecting Learning: What I Learned from Teaching a Meta-MOOC
Cathy N. Davidson
5 Toward Peerogy
Howard Rheingold
6 The Learning Cliff: Peer Learning in a Time of Rapid Change
Jonathan Worth
7 Reimagining Learning in CLMOOC
Mia Zamora
Part 3 Openness and Critical Pedagogy
8 Feminist Pedagogy in the Digital Age: Experimenting Between DOCCs and MOOCs
Adeline Koh
9 Epistemologies of Doing: Engaging Online Learning through Feminist Pedagogy
Radhika Gajjala, Erika M. Behrmann, Anca Birzescu, Andrew Corbett, and Kayleigh Frances Bondor
10 Haven’t you ever heard of Tumblr? FemTechNet’s Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC), Pedagogical Publics, and Classroom Incivility
Jasmine Rault and T. L. Cowan
11 Open Education as Resistance: MOOCs and Critical Digital Pedagogy
Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel
12 Opening Education, Linking to Communities: The #InQ13 Collective’s Participatory Open Online Course (POOC) in East Harlem
Jessie Daniels, Polly Thistlethwaite, and Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz
Part 4 The Pathos of the MOOC Moment
13 Digital Universalism and MOOC Affects
Elizabeth Losh
14 The Prospects and Regrets of an EdTech Gold Rush
Alex Reid
15 Always Alone and Together: Three of My MOOC Student Discussion and Participation Experiences
Steven D. Krause
Part 5 MOOC Critiques
16 The Open Letter to Michael Sandel and Some Thoughts about Outsourced Online Teaching
The San José State Philosophy Department
17 The Secret Lives of MOOCs
Ian Bogost
18 MOOCs, Second Life, and the White Man’s Burden
Siva Vaidhyanathan
19 Putting the “C” in MOOC: Of Crises, Critique, and Criticality in Higher Education
Nishant Shah
Contributors
Review Quotes
Nature
“Whither MOOCs — the massive open online courses that promised to vastly scale up access to higher education? This multi-author volume reveals a bumpy evolution, from wrangles over ‘educational monoculture’ to the emergence of spin-offs such as POOCs (participatory open online courses). Media theorist Elizabeth Losh is typically insightful.”
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