MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
developments in
online education have enabled
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
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 several
topics that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to consider
today because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
these
open educational
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to know how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
demand for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This sensational new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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