MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
articulates
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning have empowered
humans
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses online.
MOOCs are
usually 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 numerous
topics that
e-learning institutions
are having to consider
today because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
these
new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
need for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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