MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
analyzes
issues
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
electronic education technology are empowering
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
always
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
issues that
online learning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Somalia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
widespread there is a
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to comprehend how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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