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 this definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
articulates
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
changes in
elearning technology have enabled
learners
all over the world
to take classes online.
MOOC courses are
free
for students 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 variety of
issues that
elearning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
get a handle on
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
People want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
demand for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This inspiring new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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