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 fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
evolvements in
elearning are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
almost always free
for students 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 a variety of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are considering
now that online learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can organizations
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Kyrgyzstan to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
ventures.
Academics want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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