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.
Find out more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
blended learning have enabled
people
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
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 a variety of
topics that
elearning technology organizations
have to struggle with
now that blended learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can institutions
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Brown University to conduct these MOOC classes?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
demand
to comprehend how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
ventures.
Professors want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
desire for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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