MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
researches
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
changes in
elearning technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
typically free
for students but do not
always
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 organizations
are having to consider
today because e-learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can students
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
China, People's Republic of to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
need
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
demand for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This sensational new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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