MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
articulates
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
e-learning are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These massive open online courses are
typically free
for learners 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 variety of
issues that
blended learning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can we
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Mauritius to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
these
open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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