MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
developments in
e-learning technology are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in online classes.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These online MOOCs are
commonly free
for students 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 several
issues that
online education organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
manage problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
details
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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