MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
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 Around the World is a
book
which
considers
subjects
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
blended learning technology are making it possible for
students
all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can we
be assured that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
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
Udacity to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
initiatives.
Professors want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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