MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
studies
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
online education have empowered
people
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These MOOC 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 a variety of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
make sure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can institutions
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
United States to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
necessity
to comprehend how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This gripping new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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