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Gerber, Joanna.

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MOOCs: Innovation, Disruption and Instructional Leadership in Higher Education.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	MOOCs: Innovation, Disruption and Instructional Leadership in Higher Education./
Author:	Gerber, Joanna.
Description:	162 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-11A(E).
Subject:	Education, Higher. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3628172
ISBN:	9781321037289

MOOCs: Innovation, Disruption and Instructional Leadership in Higher Education.
Gerber, Joanna.

MOOCs: Innovation, Disruption and Instructional Leadership in Higher Education. - 162 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2014.

In the beginning rush of attention surrounding MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), there was considerable speculation regarding the ideal use and potential impact of this new innovation on teaching, learning, and traditional higher educational structures. Yet universities and colleges were rushing to implement MOOCs despite neither data nor clear understanding regarding their potential disruptive force on the educational landscape. To examine the MOOC phenomenon more closely, I conducted qualitative research that examined MOOCs integration at higher education institutions identified to be at the forefront of the MOOC movement. Framed using Everett Rogers' model of innovation diffusion (Rogers, 1962), MOOC early adopters were defined as faculty members from US institutions who offered MOOCs between April 2012 and December 2013. This study researched initial MOOC implementation efforts in order to better determine motivations, implications and future impact on higher education, which will provide greater context to this rapidly shifting innovation. My findings indicate that the primary institutional motivation to sponsor MOOCs was to raise and/or enhance their institutional brand. The findings also indicated that faculty that self-selected to participate in MOOCs at the early stage was open to experimentation as well as to the inherent risks associated with the trial of a new educational innovation. This study uncovered important implications on the main pedagogical mission of the university and its professors as a result of instructor and institutional involvement with MOOCs. More specifically, this study revealed that MOOCs have pushed pedagogical issues to the forefront, and faculty early adopters have shifted their classroom teaching in ways believed to improve the classroom experience and create more interactive learning opportunities for students as a result of MOOCs.

ISBN: 9781321037289Subjects--Topical Terms:

543175
Education, Higher.

MOOCs: Innovation, Disruption and Instructional Leadership in Higher Education.
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