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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
changes in
distance learning are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
MOOCs are
almost always free
for learners 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 several
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are struggling with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
make sure that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
desire for
details
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This intriguing new book
also explores the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources.
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