MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning technology have empowered
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online courses.
These massively open online courses are
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 a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to consider
today because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
American Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to grasp how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
ventures.
Students want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education issues.
This dramatic new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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