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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
online learning have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
generally 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.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are quite a few
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are struggling with
now that online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
certify that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Google+ to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to be aware of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
desideratum for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational subjects.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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