MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
describes
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
online education technology are providing the means for
people
in nations all aver the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
mostly free
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
online learning institutions
are dealing with
now that elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can educators
ensure that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Peru to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
desideratum
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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