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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
online education have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
commonly free
but do not
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 numerous
subjects that
e-learning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can learners
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
these
interesting new open education
undertakings.
Lecturers want
to grasp how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
need for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
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