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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
distance learning technology have made it possible for
students
all over the world
to participate in online classes.
These massive open online courses are
usually free
for students 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 quite a few
subjects that
e-learning institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
need
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
desire
to better grasp
these
important new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This thrilling new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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