MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
online education are empowering
humans
all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
These online MOOCs are
usually free
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 a lot of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
today because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
these
significant new open educational
ventures.
Universities want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
need for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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