MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
articulates
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advancements in
digital education technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to participate in classes online.
These MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for students 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 numerous
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are having to consider
now that online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Nicaragua to conduct these MOOCs?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
handle
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desideratum for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This inspiring new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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