MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
investigates
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
distance learning are enabling
humans
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
blended learning institutions
are dealing with
today because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
open education
experiments.
Universities want
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To handle this
desire for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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