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.
Learn more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
learning technology make it possible for
people
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
almost always 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 a lot of
issues that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
developing so swiftly.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
France to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
need
to better comprehend
these
open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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