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 the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can participants
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Guatemala to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
important new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
need for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education subjects.
This definitive new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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