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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
elearning are enabling
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
always
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 many
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
manage issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
need for
information
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This new book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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