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.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
researches
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advancements in
technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to take part in online classes.
MOOCs are
typically 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 numerous
issues that
elearning technology organizations
have to consider
more than ever because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Israel to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education becomes more
available there is a
desideratum
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
open education
endeavours.
Scientists want
to know how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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