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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
explores
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
developments in
blended learning are enabling
humans
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in classes online.
MOOC courses are
commonly free
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 quite a few
subjects that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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