MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
explores
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
online education are making it possible for
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
MOOCs are
customarily free
for learners 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 numerous
topics that
online learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
necessity
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Scholars
and many other
participants
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
ventures.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational subjects.
This new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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