MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
distance learning are providing the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes online.
These MOOC courses are
normally free
for learners 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.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to consider
now that online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can institutions
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
get a handle on
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to perceive how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
intriguing new open educational
initiatives.
Everybody wants
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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