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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
investigates
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
elearning technology are empowering
people
all around the world
to take online courses.
MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning organizations
have to consider
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
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
Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
details
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational topics.
This book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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