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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
topics
regarding open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
digital education technology are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
normally 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 quite a few
topics that
elearning institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can learners
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
manage
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to comprehend how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education issues.
This thrilling new book
also talks about the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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