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.
Find out more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
online learning have provided the means for
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
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 numerous
issues that
elearning organizations
must deal with
today because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
all right?
How can participants
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Sweden to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
demand
to comprehend how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to know how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
developing
desideratum for
knowledge
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational issues.
This interesting new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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