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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
studies
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
learners
in all parts of the world
to take online classes.
MOOC classes are
typically 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.
There are many
subjects that
blended learning organizations
have to consider
more than ever because blended learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can institutions
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
for teaching 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
Brown University to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
would like
to better grasp
these
exciting new open education
undertakings.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
need for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics.
This exciting new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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