MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
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 is a
book
which
analyzes
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
elearning technology enable
people
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners 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 a lot of
topics that
elearning institutions
are having to deal with
more than ever because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can students
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Israel to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
growing
demand for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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