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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
learning technology have made it possible for
students
all over the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
mostly free
for students 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 many
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
must deal with
more than ever because e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Duke University to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desire
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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