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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
talks about
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
evolvements in
elearning enable
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
almost always free
but do not
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
subjects that
learning technology institutions
must deal with
today because blended learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can educators
assure that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Tuvalu to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance 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.
Professors
and many other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
desideratum for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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