MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
investigates
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
e-learning technology are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
commonly free
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 a lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
more than ever because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
iversity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
new open education
undertakings.
Universities want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
demand for
knowledge
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This stimulating new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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