MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
changes in
technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These massive open online courses are
mostly 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 numerous
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
certify that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
all right?
How can we
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Central African Republic to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This inspiring new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
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