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.
Learn more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
evolvements in
learning technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
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.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to consider
more than ever because distance learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Trainers want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This dramatic new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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