MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
elearning technology are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
almost always 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 quite a few
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can we
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Harvard University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As elearning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
open education
initiatives.
Researchers want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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