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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
analyzes
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
blended learning enable
humans
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online learning technology organizations
have to consider
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can learners
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Northwestern University to conduct these MOOCs?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open education
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
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