MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
blended learning technology have enabled
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
These MOOC courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
consistently
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 many
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
have to consider
today because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to perceive how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
desire for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This inspiring new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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