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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
e-learning are providing the means for
learners
in all parts of the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC 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.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Jarvis Island to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
necessity
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
need for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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