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 exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
improvements in
technology-enhanced learning have empowered
people
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
customarily free
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
topics that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
now that online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
One Month to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
initiatives.
Instructors want
to perceive how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
details
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This thrilling new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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