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.
Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advancements in
distance learning technology have empowered
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
These massive online courses are
commonly 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.
There are numerous
subjects that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Denmark to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
get a handle on
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to be aware of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Academics want
to better understand how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
desire for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational topics.
This amazing new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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