MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
elearning technology have provided the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massive open online courses are
mostly 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 numerous
issues that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
today because blended learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can learners
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
necessity
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education subjects.
This new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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