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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
elearning are making it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
MOOC courses are
generally 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 a variety of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to consider
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can participants
guarantee that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
get a handle on
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
available there is a
developing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
ventures.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
desire for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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