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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
e-learning enable
humans
all over the world
to take classes online.
These MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
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
subjects that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Samoa to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
procurable there is a
demand
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
open educational
ventures.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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