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 this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
reviews
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
improvements in
learning technology have enabled
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
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 numerous
subjects that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
ventures.
Teachers want
to know how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
desire for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This stimulating new book
also investigates the
most important 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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