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 fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
distance learning technology have made it possible for
people
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
blended learning organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because distance learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
certify that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
fascinating new open educational
ventures.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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