MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
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
edited collection
that
addresses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
online education technology are empowering
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses online.
These massive online courses are
customarily free
for learners 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 numerous
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can institutions
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
North Seattle Community College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To meet this
increasing
need for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This definitive new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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