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 this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advancements in
blended learning technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
learning technology organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
handle issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
demand
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
ventures.
Intellectuals want
to know how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
need for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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