MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
e-learning are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
almost always 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 a lot of
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to consider
now that e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can institutions
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desire
to grasp how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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