MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
customarily free
for students 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 a variety of
subjects that
online education organizations
must deal with
today because blended learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can participants
ensure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
necessity
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
intriguing new open educational
undertakings.
Students want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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