MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
investigates
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
improvements in
e-learning have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
almost always free
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 a lot of
topics that
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
handle issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
compelling new open educational
undertakings.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
|