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 the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
talks about
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
developments in
blended learning technology are making it possible for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
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.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
topics that
e-learning institutions
are having to consider
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
these
open education
endeavours.
Intellectuals want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
developing
need for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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