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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
online education are making it possible for
students
all over the world
to take online courses.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive open courses are
generally 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 a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can we
make sure that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can learners
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
open education
initiatives.
Researchers want
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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