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.
Learn more about the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
online education have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
customarily free
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.
This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so rapidly.
How can participants
certify that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOC courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
necessity
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Students want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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