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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
technology-enhanced learning enable
humans
in nations all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily 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 several
topics that
learning technology organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can learners
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
would like
to better perceive
these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Researchers want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
desire for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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