MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advancements in
e-learning have enabled
learners
all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for learners 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
issues that
learning technology institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Case Western Reserve University to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
available there is a
developing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Public servants want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
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