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 this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
elearning have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in online courses.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
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 numerous
topics that
online education organizations
are struggling with
now that learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital educational technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
increasing
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This inspiring new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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