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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
gains in
distance learning technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a variety of
subjects that
blended learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Zimbabwe to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
handle
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
ventures.
Public servants want
to grasp how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
need for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education issues.
This stimulating new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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