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 the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
reviews
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
electronic education technology make it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online classes.
Massively 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.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can institutions
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
North Seattle Community College to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
need
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better perceive
these
fascinating new open education
undertakings.
Public servants want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
desire for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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