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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
distance learning technology are enabling
students
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
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 many
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can participants
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Utah State University to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
initiatives.
Everybody wants
to comprehend how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This authoritative new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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