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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
researches
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
digital education technology have provided the means for
learners
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
usually free
for learners 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
topics that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to consider
more than ever because online education technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can we
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Japan to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
need
to better comprehend
these
intriguing new open educational
endeavours.
Professors want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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