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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
improvements in
digital education technology enable
students
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
customarily 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 several
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can we
certify that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Latvia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
increasing
demand for
details
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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