MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
online learning have made it possible for
humans
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
free
for students 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.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a variety of
topics that
distance learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
necessity
to be aware of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This interesting new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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