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 the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advancements in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in classes online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are struggling with
today because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can students
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better understand
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to know how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To handle this
expanding
demand for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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