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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
evolvements in
e-learning technology have provided the means for
students
all over the world
to participate in online classes.
Massive open online courses are
normally free
for learners 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 a variety of
issues that
learning technology organizations
have to deal with
today because elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can educators
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can students
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Northern Cyprus to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
manage
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better perceive
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to perceive how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics.
This amazing new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
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