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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
digital education technology are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to take part in classes online.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
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 several
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Germany to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
these
important new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
need for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource topics.
This amazing new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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