MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
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 is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to take part in online courses.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
for learners 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 numerous
issues that
online education institutions
are having to struggle with
more than ever because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can participants
assure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Ghana to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle issues like
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to know how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
desideratum for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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