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.
Find out more about this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
topics
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
electronic education technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
elearning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can participants
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Greece to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to perceive how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To respond to this
need for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This inspiring new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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