MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
e-learning are enabling
people
all over the world
to take online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
now that blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business models are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
need
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
want
to better perceive
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This book
also talks about the
major 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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