MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
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
addresses
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
online learning technology have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
MOOC courses are
customarily 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 a variety of
topics that
blended learning organizations
must deal with
today because blended learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Marquette University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to perceive how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also explores the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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