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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
analyzes
topics
regarding open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
The latest
advances in
elearning technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in classes online.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
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
online learning organizations
are having to consider
more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
growing
desideratum for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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