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.
Learn more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
evolvements in
online education have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online courses.
These massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students 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 a variety of
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
more than ever because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to grasp how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better comprehend
these
new open education
ventures.
Professors want
to comprehend how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
details
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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