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.
Find out more about this exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
describes
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
blended learning technology are enabling
humans
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
generally 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 variety of
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Kingman Reef to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
manage issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
ventures.
People want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
desire for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This inspiring new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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