MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
developments in
technology-enhanced learning have enabled
students
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
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 numerous
subjects that
online education institutions
are dealing with
now that blended learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
certify that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
need for
facts
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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