MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
evolvements in
distance learning technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to participate in online classes.
These massive open 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 many
topics that
learning technology organizations
have to deal with
now that online education technology is
developing 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 courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Nigeria to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desire
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
need for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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