MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
distance learning are enabling
humans
in nations all around the world
to take part in courses online.
These MOOC classes are
typically 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 a variety of
topics that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can we
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
initiatives.
Professors want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational subjects.
This definitive new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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