MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to take classes online.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
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
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because online education technology is
developing so quickly.
How can we
certify that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can participants
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Indonesia to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning becomes more
available there is a
developing
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
ventures.
Scholars want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This thrilling new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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