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 this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
regarding open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
evolvements in
blended learning technology are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can learners
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This sensational new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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