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.
Find out more about the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
articulates
topics
regarding open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
developments in
online education are enabling
learners
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
always
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
subjects that
distance learning organizations
have to struggle with
more than ever because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Ghana to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
need
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
these
fascinating new open educational
undertakings.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
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