MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes online.
These MOOCs are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education institutions
are considering
today because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can learners
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Tristan da Cunha to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To meet this
growing
need for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational topics.
This dramatic new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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