MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
e-learning technology have provided the means for
students
in nations all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
generally 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 a lot of
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to consider
today because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
assure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Grenada to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
these
open education
initiatives.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This interesting new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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