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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
changes in
e-learning technology have empowered
humans
all over the world
to be participants in online classes.
Massive open online courses are
ordinarily 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.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
issues that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can participants
certify that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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