MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
online education technology are enabling
people
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
MOOC classes are
typically free
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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
South Africa to conduct these MOOC courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desire
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
initiatives.
Professors want
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This interesting new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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