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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advancements in
blended learning are making it possible for
students
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
MOOC courses are
typically free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desire
to perceive how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
ventures.
Educators want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
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