MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
free
for students 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
topics that
online education organizations
are dealing with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
certify that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can we
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
open education
experiments.
People want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources.
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