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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
investigates
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
advances in
blended learning technology enable
learners
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive open online courses are
normally free
for students 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 quite a few
subjects that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Uzbekistan to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Trainers want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
desire for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education subjects.
This scholarly new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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