MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
explores
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
changes in
online education have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
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 numerous
issues that
elearning technology institutions
have to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
demand for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This sensational new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
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