MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
talks about
topics
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
gains in
technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for
learners
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
free
for students but do not
always
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 numerous
issues that
distance learning organizations
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can learners
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Turkey to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to better understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
need for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational issues.
This amazing new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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