MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
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
edited collection
which
articulates
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
electronic educational technology enable
people
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
almost always free
for students 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
issues that
elearning institutions
have to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
undertakings.
Universities want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This thrilling new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources.
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