MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
analyzes
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
elearning technology have provided the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to take part in online classes.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
commonly 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 a variety of
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to struggle with
more than ever because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can organizations
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Canada to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
would like
to understand
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
desire for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education subjects.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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