MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
topics
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Modern
improvements in
digital education technology are enabling
humans
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
commonly 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 quite a few
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to struggle with
more than ever because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can students
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
People want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This interesting new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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