MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advancements in
distance learning technology have enabled
learners
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
These massive open 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.
There are several
issues that
e-learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
get a handle on
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
need
to better understand
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
desire for
details
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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