MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
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
book
that
deals with
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
changes in
e-learning are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive online courses are
generally free
for learners 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 a lot of
topics that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can educators
make sure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can participants
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Romania to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
manage
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to perceive how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
information
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This gripping new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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