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.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
studies
topics
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
developments in
electronic education technology have enabled
students
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for learners 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
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
knowledge
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This thrilling new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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