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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advancements in
online learning have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in online courses.
These MOOCs are
usually free
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 quite a few
topics that
online learning organizations
are struggling with
more than ever because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can we
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
need
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open education
initiatives.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
desire for
data
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This interesting new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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