MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online classes.
These massive online courses are
mostly 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
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Virginia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
these
intriguing new open education
ventures.
Intellectuals want
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
desire for
details
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
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