MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
explores
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
digital education technology have empowered
humans
all around the world
to take part in classes online.
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 several
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
be assured that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
manage problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to perceive how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
|