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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
topics
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
improvements in
elearning have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily 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 a lot of
topics that
online learning technology institutions
have to deal with
more than ever because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can we
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Solomon Islands to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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