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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
deals with
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
online education technology have enabled
students
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
ordinarily 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 several
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to deal with
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can students
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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