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 the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
explores
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
online education technology are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners 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
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
have to deal with
more than ever because online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can learners
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Trainers want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This exciting new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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