MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
evolvements in
online education are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
These online MOOCs are
normally free
for students but do not
consistently
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
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
British Virgin Islands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to comprehend how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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