MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
electronic educational technology are empowering
humans
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
usually free
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 quite a few
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can we
ensure that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
South Ossetia to conduct these MOOCs?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
undertakings.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
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