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 this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
describes
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
changes in
technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
free
for students but do not
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 several
topics that
blended learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can institutions
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
manage problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
People want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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