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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
elearning technology are providing the means for
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in courses online.
Massively 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
online education institutions
have to deal with
more than ever because elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
certify that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
University of Virginia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better understand
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
developing
desideratum for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This sensational new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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