MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
elearning are making it possible for
people
in nations all aver the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOC classes 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 numerous
issues that
blended learning organizations
have to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Haiti to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
demand
to comprehend how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open educational
initiatives.
Professors want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
desire for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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