MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
online education technology have provided the means for
people
in nations all aver the world
to take classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily 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 a lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can students
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Zambia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
ventures.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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