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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
changes in
technology-enhanced learning are enabling
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online courses.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily 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 several
subjects that
elearning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOCs?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Trainers want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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