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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
improvements in
distance learning technology make it possible for
people
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
These massive open online courses are
usually 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
subjects that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
need
to perceive how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better understand
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To satisfy this
desire for
details
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education topics.
This new book
also explores the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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