MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
electronic educational technology have provided the means for
humans
in nations all aver the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
mostly 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.
There are a variety of
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
demand
to be aware of how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
need for
details
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources.
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