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 this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
learning technology have empowered
humans
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOC courses are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
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 numerous
topics that
e-learning organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
manage issues like
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
necessity
to be aware of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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