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 the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
researches
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
elearning have enabled
learners
in all parts of the world
to take part in classes online.
These massive online courses are
free
for students but do not
consistently
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
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can students
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Comoros to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
developing
need for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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