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.
Find out more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
deals with
issues
regarding open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
learners
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
These massively open online courses are
generally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
blended learning institutions
must deal with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Sweden to conduct these MOOC courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
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