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 exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
e-learning are empowering
students
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
free
for students but do not
consistently
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 several
topics that
online learning technology institutions
are considering
more than ever because learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
demand
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
need for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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