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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
changes in
online education technology enable
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online courses.
These online MOOCs 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 a variety of
issues that
online learning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can students
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open education
ventures.
People want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This exciting new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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