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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advancements in
e-learning are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
mostly 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are several
topics that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Queen Maud Land to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
undertakings.
Everybody wants
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
need for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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