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.
Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
articulates
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
distance learning technology have made it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students 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 many
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can participants
make sure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
abundant there is a
need
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
would like
to understand
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To respond to this
growing
desire for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
major 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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