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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
students
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
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
blended learning institutions
are dealing with
today because blended learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can teachers
certify that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Mongolia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
People want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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