MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
evolvements in
distance learning enable
people
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
These massive open courses are
typically free
for students 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 a variety of
topics that
distance learning institutions
are considering
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Johnston Atoll to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
necessity
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Students want
to better understand how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
developing
need for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics.
This book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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