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 compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
New
developments in
online learning are enabling
students
all around the world
to participate in online classes.
Massively open online 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 quite a few
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to deal with
today because online learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can institutions
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
widespread there is a
need
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
open education
ventures.
Instructors want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
desire for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This interesting new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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