MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
changes in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
MOOCs are
normally free
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 quite a few
issues that
elearning technology organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so fast.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can we
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desire
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open educational
initiatives.
Universities want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
growing
desire for
data
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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