MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
studies
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
distance learning technology are empowering
learners
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
usually free
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 several
subjects that
elearning organizations
are having to deal with
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can we
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to be aware of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open educational
experiments.
People want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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