MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
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
edited collection
that
explores
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
e-learning make it possible for
students
all over the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
typically free
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 a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
are struggling with
today because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
demand for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This exciting new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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