MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
explores
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
online education have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
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 several
issues that
elearning organizations
are having to consider
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
certify that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can students
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Rwaq to conduct these MOOCs?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to grasp how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also discusses 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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