MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
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
studies
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
developments in
online education technology have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily 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 several
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
good?
How can we
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
desideratum for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
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