MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advancements in
online education are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
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
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to deal with
now that elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
assure that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
desire
to be aware of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Trainers want
to perceive how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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