MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
topics
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
blended learning technology are empowering
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
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 several
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
need for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This dramatic new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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