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 this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
researches
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
developments in
distance learning technology have enabled
students
in every nation on earth
to take part in online classes.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
These online MOOCs are
free
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.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can we
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to comprehend how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
developing
desire for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This sensational new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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