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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
reviews
topics
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
developments in
elearning technology have empowered
learners
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily 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.
There are many
issues that
e-learning institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Australia to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
demand for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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