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 the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
developments in
online education have empowered
learners
in nations all around the world
to take online classes.
These MOOC classes are
typically 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.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education organizations
are considering
today because distance learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
manage
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
undertakings.
Universities want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This amazing new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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