MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
evolvements in
online education technology are making it possible for
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive online courses are
mostly free
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
online learning technology organizations
have to consider
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so quickly.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
UC San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
need
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
desire for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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