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 this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
analyzes
issues
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
distance learning technology are enabling
humans
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
These online MOOCs are
normally free
for students 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are struggling with
today because e-learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can institutions
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Meetup to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
desideratum for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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