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 the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
New
evolvements in
e-learning have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are numerous
subjects that
distance learning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
certify that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can students
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
need
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to perceive how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
increasing
demand for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education issues.
This gripping new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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