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.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
blended learning technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take part in online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for learners 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
issues that
blended learning institutions
are dealing with
today because blended learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Dominican Republic to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
open education
initiatives.
Scholars want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
need for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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