MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Modern
evolvements in
elearning have empowered
people
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
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.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can learners
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
get a handle on
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
growing
need for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This stimulating new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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