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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
explores
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
online learning have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
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
subjects that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Bolivia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to grasp how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
demand for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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