MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
addresses
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
improvements in
technology-enhanced learning have enabled
learners
in nations all around the world
to take online classes.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These massive open online courses are
generally free
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
subjects that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
all right?
How can we
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses.
How can stakeholders
deal with
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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