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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
subjects
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
distance learning technology are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
mostly free
for learners but do not
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
e-learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
details
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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