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.
Learn more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning organizations
have to deal with
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
undertakings.
Teachers want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
need for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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