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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
explores
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
e-learning technology enable
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online classes.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
Massive open online courses are
commonly 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 quite a few
subjects that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As e-learning becomes more
widespread there is a
necessity
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
In response to this
crescive
demand for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
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