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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
subjects
relating to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
online learning technology are empowering
students
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are numerous
issues that
learning technology organizations
are struggling with
now that learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
handle problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
prolific there is a
need
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
initiatives.
Educators want
to perceive how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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