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 the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
deals with
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
evolvements in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
These massive online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
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 many
topics that
blended learning organizations
have to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Croatia to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
need
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Students want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To meet this
expanding
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This inspiring new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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