MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
describes
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
improvements in
digital education technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
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
e-learning technology organizations
have to consider
now that blended learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Serbia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
need for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education topics.
This new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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