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 the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
digital education technology enable
humans
all over the world
to take classes online.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
MOOC classes are
usually free
for learners 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.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
topics that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
WizIQ to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to perceive how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
significant new open educational
ventures.
Intellectuals want
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
need for
knowledge
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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