MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
blended learning technology have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes online.
These massive open courses are
typically free
for students but do not
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 variety of
subjects that
distance learning institutions
are dealing with
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can participants
make sure that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
One Month to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
demand for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This gripping new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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