MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
changes in
electronic education technology have made it possible for
people
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
MOOC courses are
normally 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.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning technology institutions
are having to deal with
today because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
certify that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
need
to better grasp
these
significant new open educational
initiatives.
Corporations want
to better understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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