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 this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
e-learning technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These MOOC classes are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
now that learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can organizations
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Duke University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
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