MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advancements in
technology-enhanced learning are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes online.
These MOOC courses are
normally free
for learners 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 several
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Jarvis Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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