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.
Find out more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
subjects
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
online education are enabling
students
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
normally free
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 several
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to deal with
now that online education technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Saint Martin to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desire
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
initiatives.
Educators want
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
desire for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This inspiring new book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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