MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
changes in
e-learning have empowered
students
all over the world
to take part in online courses.
These massive online courses are
mostly 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 a variety of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can learners
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
New Zealand to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
Trainers want
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This definitive new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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