MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
learners
all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
almost always 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 many
issues that
distance learning institutions
are dealing with
today because online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Russia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open education
undertakings.
Everybody wants
to know how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational subjects.
This amazing new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources.
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