MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
developments in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
MOOC courses are
usually 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 many
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
have to deal with
today because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Wellesley College to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desire
to be aware of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
new open education
undertakings.
Scholars want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This gripping new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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