MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
deals with
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
developments in
e-learning technology are providing the means for
learners
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
typically 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
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to consider
more than ever because distance learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Palmyra Atoll to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
need
to perceive how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
want
to understand
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
need for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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