MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
gains in
online education are empowering
students
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
customarily 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 several
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Namibia to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Scientists want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
expanding
need for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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