MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
talks about
topics
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
changes in
e-learning technology have enabled
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for students 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 quite a few
topics that
distance learning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desire
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
undertakings.
Corporations want
to comprehend how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
desire for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational topics.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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