MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
e-learning are empowering
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
but do not
always
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
subjects that
online learning technology organizations
are dealing with
more than ever because e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desideratum
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Professors want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
desire for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education issues.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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