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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
e-learning have provided the means for
learners
in nations all around the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are
mostly 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 a lot of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because distance learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can students
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
undertakings.
Scientists want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
need for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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