MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
blended learning technology have empowered
students
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
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 quite a few
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can we
ensure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can participants
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
need
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
would like
to understand
these
intriguing new open education
undertakings.
Universities want
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
growing
desideratum for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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