MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
investigates
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
developments in
blended learning technology are empowering
people
all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These MOOC courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can learners
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Guam to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
desideratum
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
new open educational
endeavours.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
growing
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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