MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
investigates
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
blended learning technology are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to take online courses.
MOOC 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.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
now that learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can institutions
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Albania to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
widespread there is a
desideratum
to comprehend how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This amazing new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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