MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
researches
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
changes in
online education are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
for learners 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
have to consider
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can we
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
knowledge
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This exciting new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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