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 the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
learning technology make it possible for
humans
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning.
These massively open online courses are
mostly free
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.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
issues that
distance learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because blended learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can students
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Namibia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Corporations want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
desideratum for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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