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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
New
improvements in
e-learning are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
These MOOC classes are
mostly 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.
There are several
subjects that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can learners
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
United States 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
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital educational technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
endeavours.
Corporations want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
desire for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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