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.
Find out more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
changes in
distance learning technology are enabling
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
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
e-learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to perceive how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
details
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This dramatic new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
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