MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
evolvements in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take online classes.
These massive online courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education organizations
are having to consider
more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Korea, South to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
undertakings.
Professors want
to know how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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