MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
articulates
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
electronic educational technology have enabled
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
free
for learners 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 several
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Laos to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This amazing new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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