MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
electronic education technology have enabled
students
in nations all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
usually free
for learners 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
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Costa Rica to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to be aware of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to perceive how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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