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 the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
generally 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 quite a few
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can participants
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udemy to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
widespread there is a
desire
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Educators want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
demand for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This gripping new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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