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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
online education are empowering
people
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
normally 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 numerous
issues that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
make sure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Korea, South to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
demand
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
these
new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This exciting new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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