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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
researches
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
elearning make it possible for
humans
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for learners 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
topics that
blended learning organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can students
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to know how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
|