MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
explores
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
developments in
online learning are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
These massive open courses are
generally 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 several
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
certify that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can students
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Burundi to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As elearning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
need
to perceive how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better comprehend
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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