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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
researches
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
gains in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
manage
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To meet this
expanding
desideratum for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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