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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
regarding open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advancements in
learning technology have enabled
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive open online courses are
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 lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better understand
these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Everyone wants
to know how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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