MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
gains in
online education make it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes online.
These MOOCs are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are several
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Israel to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
growing
need for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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