MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
investigates
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
learners
all around the world
to take part in courses online.
MOOCs are
typically free
for learners but do not
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
issues that
online education institutions
are having to deal with
today because distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can students
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these MOOC classes?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Academics want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
need for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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