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 Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
developments in
learning technology enable
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
commonly 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 several
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so rapidly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can participants
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
South Africa to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
handle problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects.
This gripping new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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