MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
changes in
electronic educational technology have enabled
students
in nations all around the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
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 quite a few
topics that
distance learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Uruguay to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
initiatives.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This authoritative new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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