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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
improvements in
electronic educational technology make it possible for
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in online courses.
MOOCs are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are several
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desideratum
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
endeavours.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
need for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects.
This book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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