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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
explores
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
These massive online courses are
normally free
for students 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 several
subjects that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
today because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Facebook to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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