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.
Learn more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
improvements in
technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
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 a lot of
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can participants
assure that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
ventures.
Academics want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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