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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
changes in
online learning technology are enabling
learners
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for students 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 several
issues that
online learning technology organizations
have to consider
now that elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
YouTube to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
handle issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This sensational new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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