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 the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
issues
regarding open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
learners
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for students 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.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are several
issues that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
today because online education technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can organizations
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Hungary to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
endeavours.
Public servants want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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