MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
articulates
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
blended learning have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
today because learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
manage
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
interesting new open education
endeavours.
Scholars want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational subjects.
This new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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