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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
online education are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to participate in courses online.
MOOC classes are
ordinarily 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 numerous
subjects that
distance learning institutions
are dealing with
now that online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can we
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Northwestern University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage problems like
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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