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.
Find out more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
changes in
blended learning have enabled
students
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
ensure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
demand
to grasp how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational topics.
This scholarly new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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