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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
explores
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
online education have empowered
humans
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
almost always free
for students 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 quite a few
topics that
learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
today because online learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
necessity
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This scholarly new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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