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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advancements in
technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
almost always 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 a lot of
issues that
online education organizations
have to deal with
today because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open education
undertakings.
Researchers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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