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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
investigates
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
evolvements in
blended learning are empowering
students
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These MOOC classes are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
today because distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to comprehend how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
growing
demand for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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