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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning technology have empowered
people
all around the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
generally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning organizations
must deal with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
these
open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
details
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education topics.
This intriguing new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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