MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
changes in
elearning technology are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
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.
These online MOOCs are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to attend to
now that blended learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can students
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
undertakings.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
increasing
need for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
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