MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
online education technology are empowering
learners
in nations all around the world
to take classes 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.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
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
e-learning organizations
have to deal with
now that blended learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Scientists want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
need for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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