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 the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
blended learning have enabled
learners
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
These MOOCs are
commonly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning institutions
must deal with
today because blended learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can institutions
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Tajikistan to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage
low
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
desideratum
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
these
new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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