MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
gains in
electronic educational technology enable
people
all over the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
mostly 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 numerous
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are considering
today because online learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can educators
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
interesting new open education
initiatives.
Scholars want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This interesting new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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