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Understanding the Faculty Experience Designing, Developing, and Delivering Massive Open Online Courses to Inform Academic Leaders Considering MOOC Initiatives.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Understanding the Faculty Experience Designing, Developing, and Delivering Massive Open Online Courses to Inform Academic Leaders Considering MOOC Initiatives./
Author:	Collins, Richard Bryan.
Description:	1 online resource (172 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-09A(E).
Subject:	Educational leadership. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355866360

Understanding the Faculty Experience Designing, Developing, and Delivering Massive Open Online Courses to Inform Academic Leaders Considering MOOC Initiatives.
Collins, Richard Bryan.

Understanding the Faculty Experience Designing, Developing, and Delivering Massive Open Online Courses to Inform Academic Leaders Considering MOOC Initiatives. - 1 online resource (172 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (D.Phil.)--Mercer University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

The work of academic faculty is what defines institutions of higher learning (Steward, 2013). Institutional leaders and decision-makers need valid, qualitative research information regarding faculty lived experiences in order to understand the opportunities and challenges of designing, developing, and delivering instruction on a massive scale. From 2008 to 2011 the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) went from an obscure experimental course to full-scale adoption by world-renowned institutions without consulting experts in the field of online learning, utilized older pedagogical frameworks, and still few have asked the academic faculty designing, developing, and delivering MOOCs if MOOCs are a viable learning experience or if MOOCs further institutional goals. The researcher chose to conduct a classical phenomenology by developing a 10 question semi-structured telephonic interview (Crotty, 1998; Husserl, 1931). Seven participants, four male, three female from the United States and Canada offered answers to the interview which resulted in rich data regarding their lived experiences. MOOCs can be extremely expensive and take an excessive amount of a professor's time and energy to do well. Currently, MOOCs have not proved to be the educational panacea many had hoped however, MOOCs are likely here to stay for the foreseeable future as rapid changes become the new normal for higher education. Because of the emerging nature of this field of research numerous opportunities for future research are open. Institutional leaders need better understanding of costs and learning outcomes in MOOCs in order to evaluate the challenges and opportunities posed by MOOC initiatives in their respective institutions.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355866360Subjects--Topical Terms:

585508
Educational leadership.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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