MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
explores
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
improvements in
online learning technology have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
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
issues that
elearning institutions
are considering
today because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Michigan State University to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Scholars
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
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