MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
addresses
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online education have enabled
humans
in nations all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
MOOCs are
almost always 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 a lot of
issues that
e-learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can students
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Slovenia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
manage
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
need
to better grasp
these
interesting new open education
initiatives.
Researchers want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
expanding
desideratum for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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