MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
electronic educational technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
almost always 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 many
issues that
learning technology organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can institutions
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
desire
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
desire for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This scholarly new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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