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 the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
changes in
elearning enable
students
all around the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
typically 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 quite a few
issues that
online education institutions
are having to consider
more than ever because elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can learners
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Abkhazia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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