The Commercialisation Of Massive Open Online Courses

Author : Seb Dianati
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031581830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Commercialisation of Massive Open Online Courses written by Seb Dianati and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the role of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in higher education, against the backdrop of rapid developments in online learning. Reporting on a method by which one could isolate ideologically charged words from websites, the author underlines the need to pause, question and understand the underlying motives behind MOOCs, and ask fundamental questions about their data use, commercial interests, and ability to provide ‘good’ education. With its step-by-step ideological analysis, the author challenges educators, policymakers, and students alike to reconsider the fabric of online courses and their associated platforms. The book will appeal to scholars of digital education and sociology, as well as scholars from the critical sciences.

Author : Seb Dianati
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031581849
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Commercialisation of Massive Open Online Courses written by Seb Dianati and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Curtis J. Bonk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317614143
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World written by Curtis J. Bonk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As new digital forms of formal and informal learning proliferate, there is an increasing need to better understand how people in different regions of the world are implementing massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other forms of open educational resources (OERs). Educators, researchers, politicians, and numerous other stakeholders want to grasp what the outcomes of these initiatives are and how they can be improved. Ongoing e-learning developments related to both technology and pedagogy have pushed institutions and organizations to grapple with issues of accreditation, credentialing, quality standards, innovative assessment, and learner motivation and attrition, among other areas of concern. In response, MOOCs and Open Education Around the World explores and illuminates unique implementations of MOOCs and open education across regions and nations. The book also focuses on the various opportunities as well as the dilemmas presented in this rapidly evolving age of technology-enabled learning. What are the different delivery formats, interaction possibilities, assessment schemes, and business models? What are the key controversies or issues that must be discussed and addressed? This edited collection explains MOOCs and open education trends and issues in a variety of contexts, shares key research findings, and provides practical suggestions and recommendations for the near future.

Author : Michael Nanfito
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781494495886
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MOOCs written by Michael Nanfito and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012, according to the media, was The Year of the MOOC. Massive Open Online Courses were declared to be a revolution in college education. The flow of media coverage hyped MOOCs as either the salvation of a beleaguered educational system or the corrosive agent that would dilute it beyond recognition and value. At the same time, venture funding poured into the coffers of education technology companies intent on cashing in on the newly disrupted higher education market. That investment is reshaping the development of learning and content delivery platforms being marketed to your campus, your faculty, and your students. And rapidly forming partnerships between for-profit firms and universities are providing technology vendors with a powerful vehicle for selling to higher education and inserting themselves into the dialogue about the future of educational content and delivery. But college and university administrators do not have to sit passively by, waiting for the MOOC wave to wash over them. There are still seats at the table for those intent on guiding higher education into the future. Campus leaders would do well to shoulder their way in now, rather than wait for an invitation to help shape that future. MOOCs: Opportunities, Impacts, and Challenges, being a survey of the issues and opportunities associated with Massive Open Online Courses, is an invaluable guide to those responsible for their institution's mission. Armed with the information in this book, you will be able to sort out the substance from the hype in the roiling MOOC debate, and effectively fold the future into the strategic mission of your campus.

Author : Paul Kim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317907523
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Massive Open Online Courses written by Paul Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are MOOCs a catalyst for reimagining education, a sign of the increased corporatization of the education sector, or merely a well-publicized but passing trend? Massive Open Online Courses shares insights from multiple stakeholders on what MOOCs are now and could eventually become, providing those in higher education as well as K-12, military, government, and corporate training with an authoritative source on a wide range of key issues surrounding MOOCs. MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, are a disruptive technology currently forcing a serious reconceptualization of accreditation, assessment, motivation and retention, technology-based instruction, and the overall student experience. In this timely volume, Paul Kim brings together experts from higher education, business, law, learning analytics and other relevant areas to provide an evenhanded, research-based positioning of MOOCs within the existing educational technology landscape and a base for understanding whether they could reshape the future of education.

Author : Pethuraja.S
Publisher : Pethuraja.S
ISBN 13 : 9351262464
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) For Everyone written by Pethuraja.S and published by Pethuraja.S. This book was released on 2015-05-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book "Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) For Everyone", is the most comprehensive educational web resource book that will explore the most famous innovative educational paradigm MOOC, online learning platforms and world’s prestigious higher education institutions which are offering open online courses at free of cost. The book will also cover the short history about the term, potential benefits of participation in an open online course, and how MOOCs have been transforming/revolutionizing/disseminating the ecosystem of education using advanced technologies and innovative pedagogical techniques. This book will be useful for learners who are looking for free, open, online courses to learn the new things or would like to improve their level of knowledge on a particular subject. There are vast number of open online courses available in various topics through online learning platforms which are mentioned in this book. By participating in the free open online courses offered by various universities and institutions, learners can become expert in their favorite subject and improve the career in an efficient way. This book was written to benefit the students and lifelong learners to learn anything using free open online educational courses. Unleashing the most useful free open online course Resources: The book will explore the details of 90 online learning platforms and more than 275 higher education institutions and organizations which are participating the movement of MOOCs to offer free open online courses. The book was written to represent in-depth education web resources with 9 Chapters and 155 pages.

Author : Martin Weller
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
ISBN 13 : 1909188352
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle for Open written by Martin Weller and published by Ubiquity Press. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. This marks a moment of victory for the open education movement, but at the same time the real battle for the direction of openness begins. As with the green movement, openness now has a market value and is subject to new tensions, such as venture capitalists funding MOOC companies. This is a crucial time for determining the future direction of open education. In this volume, Martin Weller examines four key areas that have been central to the developments within open education: open access, MOOCs, open education resources and open scholarship. Exploring the tensions within these key arenas, he argues that ownership over the future direction of openness is significant to all of those with an interest in education.

Author : Mesquita, Anabela
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466682809
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Furthering Higher Education Possibilities through Massive Open Online Courses written by Mesquita, Anabela and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, technological advancements have enabled higher-learning institutions to offer millions of independent learners the opportunity to participate in open-access online courses. As this practice expands, drawing considerable media attention, questions continue to arise regarding pedagogical methodology and the long-term viability of open learning. Furthering Higher Education Possibilities through Massive Open Online Courses seeks to provide a space for discussion of MOOCs: what they mean for the learning process, how they are redefining the concept of a classroom, and what effects they may have on the role of teachers. Featuring emerging research on a variety of topics relating to distance education, informal learning, as well as educational costs and funding, this book is aimed at teachers, administrators, business professionals, and designers of both curricular resources and e-classroom technology.

Author : Paul Kim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317907515
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Massive Open Online Courses written by Paul Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are MOOCs a catalyst for reimagining education, a sign of the increased corporatization of the education sector, or merely a well-publicized but passing trend? Massive Open Online Courses shares insights from multiple stakeholders on what MOOCs are now and could eventually become, providing those in higher education as well as K-12, military, government, and corporate training with an authoritative source on a wide range of key issues surrounding MOOCs. MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, are a disruptive technology currently forcing a serious reconceptualization of accreditation, assessment, motivation and retention, technology-based instruction, and the overall student experience. In this timely volume, Paul Kim brings together experts from higher education, business, law, learning analytics and other relevant areas to provide an evenhanded, research-based positioning of MOOCs within the existing educational technology landscape and a base for understanding whether they could reshape the future of education.

Author : Steven D. Krause
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602355363
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invasion of the MOOCs written by Steven D. Krause and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading proponents and critics articulate and debate the rapid rise of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) as an educational and open access innovation