MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
gains in
elearning have empowered
students
in nations all around the world
to take online classes.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners 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.
There are several
issues that
e-learning organizations
are dealing with
today because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
open educational
ventures.
Public servants want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
demand for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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