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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
changes in
blended learning have empowered
people
in nations all aver the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
almost always free
for students 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 numerous
topics that
distance learning organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
make sure that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
desideratum for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This interesting new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources.
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