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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
studies
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
changes in
blended learning technology enable
humans
all around the world
to take part in courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
necessity
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
new open education
ventures.
Public servants want
to know how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
details
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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