MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
investigates
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
online education are empowering
people
in nations all around the world
to take online courses.
Massive open online courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
consistently
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
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can we
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Students
and lots of other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Researchers want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
growing
desire for
information
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This inspiring new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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