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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
talks about
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
distance learning technology make it possible for
students
in nations all around the world
to take courses online.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
but do not
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 variety of
issues that
distance learning institutions
have to deal with
now that learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
make sure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
endeavours.
Scholars want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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