MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
e-learning have provided the means for
humans
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses 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 a variety of
subjects that
elearning organizations
are having to consider
now that online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
need for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This sensational new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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