This is the first volume that addresses Massive Open Online Courses from a post-MOOC perspective. It explores the future of the MOOC in higher education by examining what went right, what went wrong and where to now for the massification of higher education and online learning.
Rebecca Bennett is the Academic Support Programs Coordinator in the Kulbardi Aboriginal Centre at Murdoch University, Australia. She is a cross-disciplinary academic whose research and teaching interests include Cultural Studies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She has authored journal articles on critical tourism, digital pedagogy, academic identity, cross-cultural communication and queer/international student intersections.
Mike Kent is a senior lecturer and Head of Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University, Western Australia. Mike's research focus is on higher education, particularly online education, as well as online social networking platforms. His other area of interest is in people with disabilities and their use of, and access to, information technology and the internet.
1. What was all that about? Peak MOOC hype and post-MOOC legacies
Mike Kent and Rebecca Bennett
Part 1 - Barriers and opportunities
2. Any colour as long as it's black! MOOCs, (post)-Fordism and inequality
Rebecca Bennett and Mike Kent
3. Envisioning post-colonial MOOCs: Critiques and ways forward
Maha Ayham Bali and Shyam Sharma
4. Global footprints and localisation: The rise of MOOCs in China
Xin Wang
5. MOOCs for credit: Making the idea work
Jenny Ng and Leanne McRae
Part 2 - Teachers' and students' insights and experiences
6. Autoethnography: The story of 'doing a MOOC' or knowing 'the beast' from within
Melanie James
7. Exploring 'success' in MOOCs: Participants' perspective
Tharindu Rekha Liyanagunawardena, Partrick Parslow and Shirley Ann Williams
8. Learning from learners: How one MOOC's social media engagement created new insights
Sara Moseley and Hannah Scarbrough
9. Developing a MOOC: Factoring in disability
Louisa Smith, Karen Soldatic, Leanne Dowse and Mike Kent
Part 3 - Where to next?
10. Mentored open online communicites (MOOCs) as a third space for teaching and learning in higher education
Sue Ringler Pet, Katarina Silvestri, Stephanie Loomis, W. Ian O'Byrne and William Kist
11. Reframing MOOCs in higher education: Exploring professional development options
Vanessa P. Dennen and Jiyae Bong
12. The Selfie Course: More than a MOOC
Kath Albury, Tama Leaver, Alice Marwick, Jill Walker Rettberg and Theresa Senft