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    MOOC U: Who Is Getting the Most Out of Online Education and Why (English Edition)

    Por Jeffrey J. Selingo

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    MOOC U. explains
    why you should sign up for massive open online course (MOOC) and how
    you can get the greatest benefit from the courses.
    It does so by telling
    a story--the story of a single MOOC: University of Virginia Professor Ed Hess's
    "Grow to Greatness."

    Higher education
    expert and award-wining author Jeffrey J. Selingo captures in four perspectives--the
    student's, the professor's, the university's, and the online course
    provider's--why today's average MOOC student can benefit tremendously from
    MOOCs, if they only know a bit about how to navigate the MOOC universe. MOOC U. provides a path to success for
    the six million and rising students who have signed up for a free online
    course.


    A few years ago, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were
    heralded as higher education's savior. They would provide free, high quality
    education to remote villages around the world and those shut out of world-class
    universities. That remains a compelling vision, but one that is at odds with
    the hopes and plans of the majority of people who have signed up for a MOOC since
    2011. Most of them are college graduates using MOOCs as a supplement to formal
    classroom learning and a tool for professional development. For these students,
    learning to use MOOCs as an instrument for learning, more like a textbook,
    rather than a replacement for college provides rich opportunities and immediate
    rewards.


    The problem is that there are no guidebooks for prospective
    MOOC students like the hundreds that exist for the bricks-and-mortar world of
    college. MOOC U. is meant to be that
    guidebook: an explanation of the confusing web of MOOC players, the far-flung
    classmates, the professors, and most of all, how to determine quality in this
    new ecosystem. By following one MOOC course, the book lays out the issues and
    challenges of MOOCs through the personal stories of the people in the action.
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