MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
developments in
elearning are enabling
students
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
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
subjects that
online learning institutions
are struggling with
now that blended learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Instructors want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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