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 this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
elearning are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
free
for students but do not
consistently
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
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Ukraine to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
handle problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
these
important new open education
undertakings.
Intellectuals want
to perceive how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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