MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
gains in
electronic education technology make it possible for
students
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
generally 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 lot of
subjects that
e-learning institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Saint Pierre and Miquelon to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
need for
details
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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