MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
online learning are enabling
people
all over the world
to take courses online.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are numerous
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can we
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Gabon to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
get a handle on
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
initiatives.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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