MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning are empowering
people
all over the world
to participate in classes online.
Massive open online courses are
typically free
but do not
always
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
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are considering
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so quickly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Broward College to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
handle issues like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
demand
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
desire for
details
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This definitive new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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