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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
analyzes
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
blended learning have empowered
learners
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to consider
today because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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