MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
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
studies
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
changes in
learning technology have enabled
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in online classes.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for learners 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 a variety of
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
have to deal with
now that learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Comoros to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
handle
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to grasp how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
initiatives.
Researchers want
to know how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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