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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
addresses
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
electronic education technology have enabled
people
all around the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
usually 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 several
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
need
to comprehend how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to comprehend how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
demand for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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