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 exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
addresses
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
blended learning technology are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always 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 lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to consider
today because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can organizations
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Solomon Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
new open education
initiatives.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
In response to this
growing
desire for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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