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 the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
evolvements in
learning technology make it possible for
people
all over the world
to take online classes.
These online MOOCs are
generally free
for students but do not
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
e-learning organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
United States to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
demand
to perceive how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This inspiring new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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