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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
investigates
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
blended learning are making it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
MOOC classes are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to deal with
today because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can we
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
need
to better understand
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Trainers want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
desideratum for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources.
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