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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
digital education technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to take online courses.
MOOCs are
commonly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are quite a few
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
more than ever because online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Comoros to conduct these MOOCs?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better comprehend
these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
information
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This sensational new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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